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May 8th, 1945...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 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: Adolf Hitler

(TIME Cover: May the 7th, 1945)

 Famous people born on the 8th of May:

1828 - Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross; Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1884 - Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)
1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
1914 - Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)
1917 - Papa John Creach, American musician (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1994)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, American musician
1951 - Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads)
1953 - Alex Van Halen, Dutch drumme
1964 - Melissa Gilbert, American actress (Laura Ingalls in The Little House in the Country)
1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer

 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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