Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"It's Now or Never" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"Please Don't Tease" by Cliff Richard & The Shadows
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mort Sahl
(TIME Cover: August the 15th, 1960)
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Famous people born on the 19th of August: |
1596 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (d. 1662)
1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
1921 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
1946 - Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
1951 - John Deacon, English musician (Queen)
1963 - Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
1969 - Matthew Perry, Canadian actor
1973 - Crown Princess Mette Marit of Norway
1973 - Marco Materazzi, Italian football
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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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