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Major Event/ Sports /Nobel Prizes/Pulitzer Prizes/Academy Awards and Popular Movies

  • Russians Recapture Kerch Peninsula
  • Russia Cross Polish Border
  • Monte Cassino Falls
  • Rome Liberated
  • D-Day
  • Battle of The Philippine Sea
  • Bretton Woods Conference
  • S. France Invaded
  • Paris Liberated
  • Market Garden Fails
  • Dumbarton-Oaks Conference
  • Battle Of Leyte—Surigao Straits
  • Philippines Liberated
  • Battle Of Leyte—Samar
  • B-29 Raids on Japan
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Sports

    NCAA Football: Army Record: 9-0-0
    Heisman Trophy: Leslie Horvath, ohio St., TB-Q points: 412
    Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs. Chicago Blackhawks Series: 4-0
    World Series: St. Louis Cardinals vs. St. Louis Browns Series: 4-2

    Popular Movies

    1. The Affairs of Susan
    2. Along Came Jones
    3. Anchors Aweigh
    4. And Now Tomorrow
    5. Casanova Brown
    6. Christmas in Connecticut
    7. Diamond Horseshoe 8. Frenchman's Creek 9. God Is My Co-Pilot 10. Here Comes The Waves

    Academy Awards

    Best Picture: "Going My Way"
    Best Director: Leo McCarey ... "Going My Way"
    Best Actor: Bing Crosby ... "Going My Way"
    Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman ... "Gaslight"

    Nobel Prizes

    Chemistry
    HAHN, OTTO, Germany, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut, (now Max-Planck Institut) fŸr Chemie, Berlin-Dahlem, b. 1879, d. 1968: "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"

    Literature
    JENSEN, JOHANNES VILHELM, Denmark, b. 1873, d. 1950: "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style"

    Peace
    COMITƒ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS)

    Physiology or Medicine
    The prize was awarded jointly to: ERLANGER, JOSEPH, U.S.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, b. 1874, d. 1965; and GASSER, HERBERT SPENCER, U.S.A., Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, b. 1888, d. 1963: "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"

    Physics
    RABI, ISIDOR ISAAC, U.S.A., Columbia University, New York, NY, b. 1898, (in Rymanow, then Austria-Hungary) d. 1988: "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"

    Pulitzer Prizes

    Fiction: Martin Flavin ... "Journey in the Dark"
    History: Merle Curti ... "The Growth of American Thought"
    International Reporting: Daniel DeLuce ... "Associated Press"
    National Reporting: Dewy L. Fleming ... "Baltimore Sun"
    Public Service: "Omaha (NE) World Herald"