EVB2925049: Richard H. Ranger American electrical engineer, sound engineer, and inventor. He demonstrated his new electric organ which uses loudspeakers instead of organ pipes. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Ranger with an Oscar in 1956 for his development of the tape recorder which improved the synchronization of film and sound / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925088: Boris Pasternak, Russian writer was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. When historical novel, 'Dr. Zhivago' was refused publication in the USSR, it was smuggled into Western Europe and published in 1957. The Soviet government pressured him to decline the Prize, but his descendants accepted it his name 1988 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925154: Father Charles Coughlin with his parents, Amelia and Thomas J. Coughlin. April 16, 1942. Shortly afterward, on May 1, 1942, Archbishop Edward Mooney, the new leader of the Catholic Church in Detroit, instructed Coughlin to cease all non-pastoral activities or leave the priesthood / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925271: India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi speaks to supporters on June 18, 1975. Six days earlier, the High Court of Allahabad declared Indira Gandhi's election to the Lok Sabha (lower house of legislature) void, and stripped of her parliamentary seat for electoral malpractice. She appealed the decision and declared a State of Emergency caused by internal disorder. June 25, 1975 / Bridgeman Images