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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Famous people born on the 6th of October: |
1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
1950 - Thomas McClary, American guitarist (Commodores)
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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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