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- <title>1945 Time Capsule</title>
- <history>TIME Almanac-- 1945 50-Year Anniversary</history>
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- <hdr>50th Anniversary Timeline
- Time Capsule 1945</hdr>
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- <tblhdr><c><c>1945 Fast Facts<c>
- <row><c><c>President of U.S.<c>Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- <row><c><c>Vice President of U.S.<c>Harry S Truman
- <row><c><c>Best Motion Picture<c>The Lost Weekend
- <row><c><c>Inflation<c> +1.2%
- <row><c><c>Unemployment<c>1.9%
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- <p><hi format=bold>Events of Interest</hi></p>
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- <item>•Yalta Conference divided Germany into occupation zones.
- <item>•U.S. Flag raised on Mr. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Feb. 23. Island captured March 16.
- <item>•FDR died at Warm Springs Georgia, April 4.
- <item>•Harry S Truman succeeded to Presidency.
- <item>•War in Europe ended May 7.
- <item>•United Nations Charter drawn up in San Francisco.
- <item>•Enola Gay dropped bomb on Hiroshima, August 6.
- <item>•Nagasaki bombed on August 9.
- <item>•Japan surrendered August 14.
- <item>•Truman, Churchill, and Stalin met at Potsdam to plan for the end of the war.
- <item>•Rationing of food and fuel ended by November.
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- <p><hi format=bold>Science and and Technology</hi></p>
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- <item>First atomic bomb exploded at Alamogorda, New Mexico has power equal to 20,000 tons of TNT.
- <item>Nobel Prize for Medicine won by Fleming, Florey and Chain for discovery of penicillin.
- <item>New antibiotic, streptomycin, introduced by Dr. William Robbins.
- <item>C-54 Douglas Skymaster set record for around-the-world flight, 149 hours, 44 minutes.
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- <p><hi format=bold>Arts and Media</hi></p>
- <list><hi format=ital>Ebony</hi> magazine published for first time in Chicago.
- <item><hi format=ital>The Age of Jackson</hi> by Arthur M. Schlesinger,Jr. wins Pulitzer Prize.
- <item><hi format=ital>The Glass Menagerie</hi> by Tennessee Williams opens on Broadway.
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- <p><hi format=bold>Popular Songs</hi></p>
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- <item>On the Atchison, Topeka and the Sante Fe
- <item>Laura
- <item>June is Bustin' Out All Over
- <item>If I Loved You
- <item>Sentimental Journey
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- <p><hi format=bold>Books in Print</hi></p>
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- <item><hi format=ital>Black Boy</hi> by Richard Wright
- <item><hi format=ital>Cannery Row</hi> by John Steinbeck
- <item><hi format=ital>Animal Farm</hi> by George Orwell
- <item><hi format=ital>Forever Amber</hi> by Kathleen Winsor
- <item><hi format=ital>The Robe</hi> by Lloyd C. Douglas
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- <tblhdr><c><c>Sports<c>
- <row><c><c>World Series<c>Detroit(AL) 4, Chicago (NL) 3
- <row><c><c>National Football League<c>Cleveland 15, Washington 14
- <row><c><c>Stanley Cup<c>Toronto
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- <p><hi format=bold>Noted with Interest</hi></p><list>
- <item>The National Christmas Tree at the White House was lit for the first time since 1941.
- <item>Bing Crosby recorded <hi format=ital>White Christmas</hi>.
- <item>Former US Secretary of State Cordell Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize.
- <item>Tupperware was invented by Earl Tupper.
- <item>The first Volkswagen Beetle was produced in Wolfsburg, Germany.
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