Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Travelin' Man" by Ricky Nelson
In the UK:
"You're Driving Me Crazy" by The Temperance Seven
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Eugene Carson Blake
(TIME Cover: May the 26th, 1961)
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Famous people born on the 1st of June: |
1771 - Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
1563 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
1815 - King Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
1857 - Le Pétomane (Joseph Pujol), French professional farter (d. 1945)
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
1940 - René Auberjonois, American actor
1959 - Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil)
1960 - Simon Gallup, English guitarist, (The Cure)
1963 - Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths)
1970 - Karen Mulder, Dutch model
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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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