| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Quarter to Three" by Gary U.S. Bonds
In the UK:
"Runaway" by Del Shannon
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Dr. Leonard Larson
(TIME Cover: July the 7th, 1961)
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Famous people born on the 9th of July: |
1249 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305)
1578 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
1654 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1894 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco, (d. 1999)
1932 - Donald Rumsfeld, 12th & 20th United States Secretary of Defense
1943 - John Casper, astronaut
1956 - Tom Hanks, American actor
1964 - Courtney Love, American musician
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer (ofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic)
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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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