| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith
In the UK:
"Running Bear" by Johnny Preston
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Caryl Chessman
(TIME Cover: March the 21st, 1960)
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Famous people born on the 21st of March: |
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
1713 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
1768 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1946 - Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor
1958 - Gary Oldman, English actor
1967 - Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy)
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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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