The Year - 1945
The Family News..:

Jo Ann was born to Lucille (Farenga) & August Fiorini in Chicago on April 12th.

The #1 Songs Were .....
Accentuate the PositiveJohnny Mercer
CandyJohnny Mercer & Jo Stafford
Chickery ChickSammy Kaye
DreamPied Pipers
I Can't Begin To Tell YouBing Crosby w/Carmen Cavallaro
I'm Beginning To See the LightHarry James
It's Been A Long, Long TimeBing Crosby with Les Paul
It's Been A Long, Long TimeHarry James
My Dreams Are Getting Better All the TimeLes Brown
On the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa FeJohnny Mercer
Rum and Coca-ColaThe Andrews Sisters
Sentimental JourneyLes Brown
There, I've Said It AgainVaughn Monroe
Till the End Of TimePerry Como
White ChristmasBing Crosby


AT THE MOVIES....
Best Picture - Lost Weekend, Charles Brackett.
Other Nominees - Anchors Aweigh, Bells of St. Mary's, ,Mildred Pierce, Spellbound

Best Actor - Ray Milland, Lost Weekend.
Other Nominees - Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Gregory Peck, Cornel Wilde .

Best Actress - Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce.
Other Nominees - Ingrid Bergman, Gene Tierney, Jennifer Jones, Greer Garson.

Supporting Actor - James Dunn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Supporting Actress - Anne Revere, National Velvet.
Best Director - Billy Wilder, Lost Weekend.
Original Screenplay - Richard Schweizer, Marie-Louise
Best Sound - Bells of St. Mary's, Stephen Dunn, RKO Radio).
Special Effects - Wonder Man, ohn P. Fulton (photographic); Arthur Johns (sound).
Best Song - "It Might as Well Be Spring", State Fair (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein).
Best Music - Anchors Aweigh, George E. Stoll.
Cartoon - Quiet Please! , Fred Quimby.

In The News..:
Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) plans final defeat of Germany (Feb.).
San Francisco Conference establishes U.N. (April�June).
FDR dies (April 12).
Hitler commits suicide; Germany surrenders (May 7); May 8 is declared V-E Day.
Potsdam Conference (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) establishes basis of German reconstruction (July�Aug.).
U.S. drops atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 8).
Japan signs official surrender on V-J Day (Sept. 2).

Last updated on Sunday, May 14, 2000