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March 23rd, 1961...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Surrender"
by Elvis Presley

In the UK:
"Walk Right Back / Ebony Eyes"
by The Everly Brothers
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: King Savang Vatthana

(TIME Cover: March the 17th, 1961)

 Famous people born on the 23rd of March:

1723 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)
1749 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
1887 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
1944 - Michael Nyman, British minimalist composer
1968 - Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur and Gorillaz)

 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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