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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $91.30 billion
Federal debt: $204.1 billion
Consumer Price Index: 17.6
Unemployment: 1.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Sports
World SeriesSt. Louis Cardinals d. St. Louis Browns (4-2)Stanley CupMontreal d. Chicago (4-0)WimbledonWomen: Not held (World War II)
Men: Not held (World War II)Kentucky Derby ChampionPensiveNCAA Basketball ChampionshipUtah d. Dartmouth (42-40 OT)NCAA Football ChampionsArmy (9-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Journey in the Dark, Martin Flavin
Music: Symphony No. 4 (Op. 34), Howard Hanson
Oscars awarded in 1944
Academy Award, Best Picture: Casablanca (Warner Bros.) Nobel Prize for Literature: Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark) Miss America: Venus Ramey (DC) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- The first instance of network censorship occurs. The sound is cut off on the Eddie Cantor and Nora Martin duet, "We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me."
- The DuMont network goes on the air. Paramount Pictures backs the start-up enterprise, but its lack of affiliated radio networks leads to its early demise in 1956.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Otto Hahn (Germany), for work on atomic fission1945 Physics: Isidor Isaac Rabi (US), for work on magnetic movements of atomic particles Physiology or Medicine: Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Spencer Gasser (both U.S.), for work on functions of the nerve threads
- Scientists at Harvard University construct the first automatic, general-purpose digital computer.
- DNA is isolated by Oswald Avery.
- The Germans develop the V-2, the first true missile.
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