Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Stuck on You" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"Cathy's Clown" by The Everly Brothers
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Famous people born on the 8th of May: |
1828 - Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross; Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1884 - Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)
1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
1914 - Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)
1917 - Papa John Creach, American musician (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1994)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, American musician
1951 - Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads)
1953 - Alex Van Halen, Dutch drumme
1964 - Melissa Gilbert, American actress (Laura Ingalls in The Little House in the Country)
1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer
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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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