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:
"My Old Man's A Dustman" by Lonnie Donegan
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: St. Paul
(TIME Cover: April the 18th, 1960)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of April: |
1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright [uncertain] (d. 1616)
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1791 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868)
1858 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1928 - Shirley Temple, American actress
1936 - Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988)
1954 - Michael Moore, American filmmaker
1960 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991)
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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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