Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Tossin' and Turnin'" by Bobby Lewis
In the UK:
"Runaway" by Del Shannon
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Camping
(TIME Cover: July the 14th, 1961)
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Famous people born on the 14th of July: |
1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1857 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)
1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
1874 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)
1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1913 - Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., 38th President of the United States
1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director
1919 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)
1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
1965 - Igor Khoroshev, Russian keyboard player (Yes)
1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
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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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