April 7th, 1962 - kakorama

April 7th, 1962...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Johnny Angel" by Shelley Fabares In the UK: "Wonderful Land" by The Shadows

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Sophia Loren

(TIME Cover: April the 6th, 1962)

Famous people born on the 7th of April:

1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef

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

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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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