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September 4th, 1962...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sheila"
by Tommy Roe

In the UK:
"I Remember You"
by Frank Ifield
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Berlin Wall

(TIME Cover: August the 31st, 1962)

 Famous people born on the 4th of September:

1241 - Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286)
1563 - Wanli, Emperor of China (d. 1620)
1913 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976)
1917 - Henry Ford II, American industrialist (d. 1987)
1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist
1949 - Martin Chambers, English drummer (The Pretenders)
1974 - Carmit Bachar, American musician (Pussycat Dolls)
1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, American singer

 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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