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April 13th, 1945...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time"
by Les Brown

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant General George Patton

(TIME Cover: April the 9th, 1945)

 Famous people born on the 13th of April:

1519 - Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
1584 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (New style date) (d. 1826)
1771 - Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor of the first working railway steam locomotive (d. 1833)
1866 - Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
1901 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
1906 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
1944 - Jack Casady, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
1962 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (d. 1988)

 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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