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April 26th, 1962...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Good Luck Charm"
by Elvis Presley

In the UK:
"Wonderful Land"
by The Shadows
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Karl Barth

(TIME Cover: April the 20th, 1962)

 Famous people born on the 26th of April:

121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
1573 - Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
1648 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
1917 - I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1940 - Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
1960 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)

 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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