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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Famous people born on the 28th of March: |
1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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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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