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November 3rd, 1962...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"He's a Rebel"
by The Crystals

In the UK:
"Telstar"
by The Tornados
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Admiral George Anderson

(TIME Cover: November the 2nd, 1962)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of November:

39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
1604 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
1852 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 - Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1959 - Hal Hartley, American film director and writer

 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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