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June 7th, 1961...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Running Scared"
by Roy Orbison

In the UK:
"Surrender"
by Elvis Presley
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Governor John Patterson

(TIME Cover: June the 2nd, 1961)

 Famous people born on the 7th of June:

1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1886 - Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
1917 - Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)
1928 - James Ivory, American film director
1950 - Gary Graham, American Actor
1953 - Johnny Clegg, South African musician
1958 - Prince, American musician
1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

 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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