| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Good Luck Charm" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"Wonderful Land" by The Shadows
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Blas Roca
(TIME Cover: April the 27th, 1962)
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Famous people born on the 30th of April: |
1662 - Queen Mary II of England
1721 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855)
1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1946 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
1956 - Lars von Trier, Danish film director
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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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