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November 26th, 1962...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Big Girls Don't Cry"
by The Four Seasons

In the UK:
"Lovesick Blues"
by Frank Ifield
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Joan Baez

(TIME Cover: November the 23rd, 1962)

 Famous people born on the 26th of November:

1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 146
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
1847 - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1909 - Eugène Ionesco, French playwright (d. 1994)
1931 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1939 - Tina Turner, American singer and actress
1944 - Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
1951 - Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician

 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



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 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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