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October 3rd, 1962...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sherry"
by The Four Seasons

In the UK:
"She's Not You"
by Elvis Presley
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ted Kennedy

(TIME Cover: September the 28th, 1962)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of October:

1790 - John Ross (Cherokee chief), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
1889 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
1898 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
1919 - James M. Buchanan, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 - Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962


John Steinbeck
1902-1968

for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception

USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1962 (USA)



$0.54
     
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)

Designed in 1962

The T-520 Transister Radio
by Dieter Rams

 
 
 
     

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