Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" by Vaughn Monroe
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Henry Ford II
(TIME Cover: February the 4th, 1946)
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Famous people born on the 7th of February: |
1102 - Empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
1693 - Empress Anna of Russia (d. 1740)
1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)
1906 - Puyi, Emperor of China (d. 1967)
1962 - David Bryan, American musician (Bon Jovi)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946 |
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Hermann Joseph Muller
1890-1967
for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation
USA
Indiana University - Bloomington, IN, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1946 |
The Best Years of Our Lives
directed by William Wyler
with Fredric March (Al Stephenson) and Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)
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Designed in 1946 |
The Radio - Walnut and bakelite
by Charles Eames |
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