Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Running Bear" by Johnny Preston
In the UK:
"What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For" by Emile Ford & The Checkmates
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: U.S. Commuters
(TIME Cover: January the 18th, 1960)
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Famous people born on the 24th of January: |
76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1959 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960 |
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Willard Frank Libby
1908-1980
for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science
USA
University of California - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1960 (USA) |
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$0.57 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1960 |
The Apartment
directed by Billy Wilder
with Jack Lemmon (C.C. 'Bud' Baxter), Jack Kruschen (Dr. Dreyfuss) and Shirley MacLaine (Fran Kubelik)
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Designed in 1960 |
The Marshmallow Sofa
by George Nelson |
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