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July 1st, 1945...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sentimental Journey"
by Les Brown

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant General Lucius Clay

(TIME Cover: June the 25th, 1945)

 Famous people born on the 1st of July:

1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician, (Blondie)
1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model and actress

 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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