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: Chiang Kai-shek
(TIME Cover: September the 3rd, 1945)
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Famous people born on the 4th of September: |
1241 - Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286)
1563 - Wanli, Emperor of China (d. 1620)
1913 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976)
1917 - Henry Ford II, American industrialist (d. 1987)
1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist
1949 - Martin Chambers, English drummer (The Pretenders)
1974 - Carmit Bachar, American musician (Pussycat Dolls)
1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, American singer
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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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