Timeline December 1945

Events in December 1945 6

• 1866 – 1945 Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) Died 4 December 1945, aged 79 Morgan was an American geneticist whose experiments with fruit flies established the chromosomal theory of heredity. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for demonstrating how genes are carried on chromosomes. His work founded modern experimental genetics.
• 1942 – 1945 Wartime Factory Work At 13, was sent to work in a military factory sewing parachutes for the Japanese army during World War II. She later said she spent her adolescence 'in closed darkness', hearing air-raid sirens and watching American B-29 bombers fly overhead. The experience instilled a lifelong commitment to personal and creative freedom.
• 1945 Earl Scruggs joins Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys The classic sound With Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs the bluegrass sound is complete.
• 1945 Patton Heidelberg, Germany Cairns was among the first surgeons called to General George Patton after a car crash left him paralysed from the neck down. Patton died of an embolism twelve days later.
• 1945 – 2020 Herman Cain (1945-2020) Died 30 July 2020, aged 74 Herman Cain was an American businessman and 2012 Republican presidential candidate who later chaired the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He died of complications from COVID-19 on 30 July 2020.
• 1945 – 2015 Lemmy Kilmister (1945-2015) Died 28 December 2015, aged 70 Lemmy Kilmister was an English musician who founded and fronted the heavy metal band Motorhead for over four decades. His gravelly voice and relentless touring made him one of the most recognizable figures in rock music. Motorhead's song 'Ace of Spades' became a genre-defining anthem.