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Date: 24 January 1947
comment on Stalin lack of interest in press
Michio Kaku (; Japanese: カク ミチオ, 加來 道雄; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. For his efforts to bridge science and science fiction, he is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee.
His books Physics of the Impossible (2008), Physics of the Future (2011), The Future of the Mind (2014), and The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything (2021) became New York Times best sellers. Kaku has hosted several television specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel.
Read more...The January 24, 1947 was a Friday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 23 day of the year. President of the United States was Harry S. Truman.
If you were born on this day, you are 78 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, January 24, 2025, 258 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, January 24, 2026, in 106 days. You have lived for 28,748 days, or about 689,969 hours, or about 41,398,161 minutes, or about 2,483,889,660 seconds.
Date: 25 January 1947
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Curbs on Finnish and foreign journalists reimposed, Helsinki
Date: 25 January 1947
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UN asks 4 Balkan govts to facilitate work of accredited correspondents covering Balkan comm activities; Bulgaria promises aid
Date: 25 January 1947
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PRESS CONTROL: mil censorship temporarily imposed on dispatches
Date: 25 January 1947
NYC Ger-language Staats Zeitung und Herold Amer Newspaper Guild workers threaten strike for higher wages
Date: 24 January 1947
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Jersey Journal ed employes accept Amer Newspaper Guild as bargaining agent, Jersey City
Date: 25 January 1947
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Date: 25 January 1947
Apptd dir of Pulitzer Prizes; announces new method of judging journalism awards