| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Walk Like a Man" by The Four Seasons
In the UK:
"Summer Holiday" by Cliff Richard & The Shadows
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Richard J. Daley
(TIME Cover: March the 15th, 1963)
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Famous people born on the 16th of March: |
1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the contraceptive pill (d. 2004).
1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
1932 - Walter Cunningham, astronaut
1953 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 |
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1906-1972
with J. Hans D. Jensen, for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure
USA
University of California - La Jolla, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1963 (USA) |
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$0.55 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1963 |
Tom Jones
directed by Tony Richardson
with Albert Finney (Tom Jones) and Diane Cilento (Molly)
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Designed in 1963 |
The Djinn chaise lounge
by Olivier Mourgue |
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