Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" by Connie Francis
In the UK:
"Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
(TIME Cover: September the 26th, 1960)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of October: |
1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, American author and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
1798 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Bapu, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)
1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
1950 - Michael Rutherford, British musician (Genesis)
1951 - Sting, British musician and actor
1968 - Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player
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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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