kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

January 1st, 1961...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
by Elvis Presley

In the UK:
"I Love You"
by Cliff Richard & The Shadows
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Abubakar Balewa

(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1960)

 Famous people born on the 1st of January:

431 - Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, French Olympic Games initiator(d. 1937)
1881 - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
1883 - Gabrielle Chanel, French Designer (d. 1971)
1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
1945 - Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
1972 - Lilian Thuram, French footballer

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961


Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
1929-

for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name

Federal Republic of Germany
Technical University - Munich, Federal Republic of Germany; California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Pasadena, CA, USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1961 (USA)



$0.57
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1961

West Side Story
directed by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
with George Chakiris (Bernardo) and Rita Moreno (Anita)

Designed in 1961

The 421 lounge chair/ottoman
by Pierre Paulin

 
 
 
     

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