Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" by Johnny Mercer
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: William Jeffers
(TIME Cover: July the 30th, 1945)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of August: |
1696 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
1868 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
1939 - Wes Craven, American film director
1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
1960 - Neal Morse, American singer, guitarist and keyboardist (Spock's Beard and Transatlantic)
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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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