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:
"Why" by Anthony Newley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Pat Nixon
(TIME Cover: February the 29th, 1960)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of March: |
1455 - King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
1831 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d. 1922)
1911 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
1948 - Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)
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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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