Editing 1945 (section)

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* A team at [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] (led by [[Charles D. Coryell]]) discovers [[chemical element]] 61, the only one still missing between 1 and 96 on the [[periodic table]], which they will name [[promethium]].<ref>{{cite journal|year=2003 |title=Discovery of Promethium |journal=Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review |volume=36 |issue=1 |url=http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v36_1_03/article_02.shtml |access-date=2011-06-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622100448/http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v36_1_03/article_02.shtml |archive-date=2011-06-22}}</ref> Found by analysis of fission products of irradiated uranium fuel, its discovery is not made public until 1947.
* The Australian government introduces an Assisted Passage Migration Scheme to encourage the immigration of British subjects, at a fare of [[Pound sterling|£]]10, hence they become known as "[[Ten Pound Poms]]".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hammerton|first1=A. James|last2=Thomson|first2=Alistair|title='Ten Pound Poms': Australia's Invisible Migrants|year=2005|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=0-719071321}}</ref>
* The first geothermal milk pasteurization is done in [[Klamath Falls, Oregon]], United States.