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June 2nd, 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: Rodion Malinovsky

(TIME Cover: May the 30th, 1960)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of June:

926 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
1535 - Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
1743 - Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
1835 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
1940 - King Constantine II of Greece
1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1955 - Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, American rock drummer (The Strokes)

 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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