Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Don't Fence Me In" by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Harry Hopkins
(TIME Cover: January the 22nd, 1945)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of January: |
1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1896 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 |
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Sir Alexander Fleming
1881-1955
with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey, for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases
United Kingdom
London University - London, United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1945 |
The Lost Weekend
directed by Billy Wilder
with Ray Milland (Don Birnam)
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Designed in 1945 |
The Silver Streak Iron
by Designer unknown |
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