Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Moody River" by Pat Boone
In the UK:
"Surrender" by Elvis Presley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Barry Goldwater
(TIME Cover: June the 23rd, 1961)
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Famous people born on the 25th of June: |
1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1924 - Sidney Lumet, American actor
1928 - Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
1944 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
1963 - George Michael, British 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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