kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

September 22nd, 1946...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"To Each His Own"
by The Ink Spots

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Josip Broz Tito

(TIME Cover: September the 16th, 1946)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of September:

1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
1829 - Tu Duc, Emperor of Vietnam
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 - James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian teno
1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
1976 - Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer

 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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