Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Rum and Coca-Cola" by The Andrews Sisters
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Capt. Mildred McAfee
(TIME Cover: March the 12th, 1945)
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Famous people born on the 12th of March: |
1386 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (d. 1428)
1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, First President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1940 - Al Jarreau, American singer
1946 - Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
1956 - Steve Harris, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1960 - Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (Pizzicato Five)
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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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