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May 26th, 1960...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Cathy's Clown"
by The Everly Brothers

In the UK:
"Cathy's Clown"
by The Everly Brothers
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Paris Summit

(TIME Cover: May the 23rd, 1960)

 Famous people born on the 26th of May:

1264 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 - Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
1566 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1926 - Miles Davis, American Jazz musician
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, American guitarist and singer
1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1960 (USA)



$0.57 
     
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)

Designed in 1960

The Marshmallow Sofa
by George Nelson

 
 
 
     

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