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 27th of March: |
972 - King Robert I of France (d. 1031)
1785 - King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
1809 - Baron Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
1901 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor
1950 - Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
1959 - Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1969 - Keith Flint, member of British group The Prodigy
1970 - Mariah Carey, American singer
1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
1975 - Stacy 'Fergie' Ferguson, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
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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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