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November 26th, 1960...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Stay"
by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs

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

TIME Magazine: Hong Kong

(TIME Cover: November the 21st, 1960)

 Famous people born on the 26th of November:

1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 146
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
1847 - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1909 - Eugène Ionesco, French playwright (d. 1994)
1931 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1939 - Tina Turner, American singer and actress
1944 - Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
1951 - Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician

 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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