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:
"Apache" by The Shadows
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Shah of Iran
(TIME Cover: September the 12th, 1960)
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Famous people born on the 13th of September: |
1087 - John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
1739 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
1916 - Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (d. 1990)
1924 - Maurice Jarre, French composer
1931 - Barbara Bain, American actress
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
1952 - Randy Jones, American musician, The Village People
1967 - Tim Owens, American singer, Iced Earth, ex-Judas Priest
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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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