Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Twist" by Chubby Checker
In the UK:
"The Young Ones" by Cliff Richard & The Shadows
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: John W. McCormack
(TIME Cover: January the 19th, 1962)
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Famous people born on the 24th of January: |
76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1959 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 |
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John Steinbeck
1902-1968
for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception
USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1962 (USA) |
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$0.54 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1962 |
Lawrence of Arabia
directed by David Lean
with Peter O'Toole (T.E. Lawrence) and Omar Sharif (Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish)
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Designed in 1962 |
The T-520 Transister Radio
by Dieter Rams |
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