Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Take Good Care of My Baby" by Bobby Vee
In the UK:
"Johnny Remember Me" by John Leyton
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Arthur J. Goldberg
(TIME Cover: September the 22nd, 1961)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of September: |
1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
1829 - Tu Duc, Emperor of Vietnam
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 - James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian teno
1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
1976 - Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
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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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