January 20th, 1946

January 20th, 1946...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "I Can't Begin to Tell You" by Bing Crosby and Carmen Cavallaro

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Robert E. Gross

(TIME Cover: January the 14th, 1946)

Famous people born on the 20th of January:

225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek industrialist (d. 1975)
1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1930 - Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr., astronaut
1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1946 - David Lynch, American film director

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946

Hermann Joseph Muller
1890-1967

for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation

USA
Indiana University - Bloomington, IN, USA

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 1946

The Best Years of Our Lives
directed by William Wyler
with Fredric March (Al Stephenson) and Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)

Designed in 1946

The Radio - Walnut and bakelite
by Charles Eames

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