Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Calcutta" by Lawrence Welk
In the UK:
"Are You Lonesome Tonight" by Elvis Presley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Samuel T. Rayburn
(TIME Cover: February the 10th, 1961)
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Famous people born on the 13th of February: |
1599 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
1933 - Kim Novak, American actress
1939 - Beate Klarsfeld, German Holocaust investigator/Nazi hunter
1956 - Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order)
1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer
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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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