kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

April 14th, 1946...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Oh! What It Seemed to Be"
by Frankie Carle

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Laurence Olivier

(TIME Cover: April the 8th, 1946)

 Famous people born on the 14th of April:

1336 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (d. 1374)
1578 - King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1866 - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (d. 1936)
1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
1974 - Da Brat, American rapper

 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

 
 
 
     

Jump to another date:

    

and click to see what happened:

play crystal ball gazing with the-crystal-ball.com
or translate text into nightingale language on nightingale-song.com
or send singing birthday messages with the kakomessenger
or compose your ringtone for free with the
kakophone machine
 

© Kakophone 2006
Terms of use - Legal information - Webmaster