Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Tossin' and Turnin'" by Bobby Lewis
In the UK:
"Temptation" by The Everly Brothers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Bill Maudlin
(TIME Cover: July the 21st, 1961)
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Famous people born on the 27th of July: |
1667 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
1768 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1835 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1907)
1938 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator
1960 - Jay Maynard, Internet celebrity (Tron Guy)
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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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