Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Save the Last Dance for Me" by The Drifters
In the UK:
"It's Now Or Never" by Elvis Presley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Richard Nixon
(TIME Cover: October the 31st, 1960)
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Famous people born on the 5th of November: |
1271 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1615 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)
1854 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
1917 - Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000)
1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, guitarist (Radiohead)
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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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