Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Stuck on You" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"Do You Mind" by Anthony Newley
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Famous people born on the 3rd of May: |
612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
1886 - Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1933 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1961 - Joe Murray, Cartoonist
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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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