Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean
In the UK:
"Little Sister / His Latest Flame" by Elvis Presley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: John F. Enders
(TIME Cover: November the 17th, 1961)
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Famous people born on the 17th of November: |
9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
1755 - Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
1905 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 |
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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
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1961 (USA) |
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$0.57 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1961 |
West Side Story
directed by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
with George Chakiris (Bernardo) and Rita Moreno (Anita)
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Designed in 1961 |
The 421 lounge chair/ottoman
by Pierre Paulin |
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