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September 11th, 1945...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"
by Johnny Mercer

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant General Eichelberger

(TIME Cover: September the 10th, 1945)

 Famous people born on the 11th of September:

1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium
1937 - Robert Crippen, American astronaut
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
1965 - Moby, American musician
1966 - Princess Akishino, Wife of Prince Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)

 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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