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: King Ibn Saud
(TIME Cover: March the 5th, 1945)
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Famous people born on the 7th of March: |
189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)
1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
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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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