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November 14th, 1960...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Georgia on My Mind"
by Ray Charles

In the UK:
"It's Now Or Never"
by Elvis Presley
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe

(TIME Cover: November the 14th, 1960)

 Famous people born on the 14th of November:

1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702)
1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1933 - Fred Haise, American astronaut
1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1960 (USA)



$0.57 
     
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)

Designed in 1960

The Marshmallow Sofa
by George Nelson

 
 
 
     

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