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October 16th, 1945...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Till the End of Time"
by Perry Como

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lewis Schwellenbach

(TIME Cover: October the 15th, 1945)

 Famous people born on the 16th of October:

1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1914 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945


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


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1945

The Lost Weekend
directed by Billy Wilder
with Ray Milland (Don Birnam)

Designed in 1945

The Silver Streak Iron
by Designer unknown

 
 
 
     

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