Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 |
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TIME Magazine: Sophia Loren
(TIME Cover: April the 6th, 1962)
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Famous people born on the 8th of April: |
563 BC - Gautama Buddha, Indian religious leader (d. 483 BC)
1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1605 - King Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)
1868 - King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
1875 - King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)
1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978)
1938 - Kofi Annan, Ghanian United Nations Secretary General
1962 - Izzy Stradlin, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
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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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