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May 12th, 1961...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Runaway"
by Del Shannon

In the UK:
"Blue Moon"
by The Marcels
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Alan Sheperd

(TIME Cover: May the 12th, 1961)

 Famous people born on the 12th of May:

1401 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (d. 1428)
1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1670 - Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
1845 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924)
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
1936 - Frank Stella, American painter

 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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