kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

September 25th, 1945...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Till the End of Time"
by Perry Como

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Alfred P. Sloan

(TIME Cover: September the 24th, 1945)

 Famous people born on the 25th of September:

1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain
1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)
1955 - Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh 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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