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January 2nd, 1963...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Telstar"
by The Tornados

In the UK:
"Return To Sender"
by Elvis Presley
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jawaharlal Nehru

(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1962)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of January:

1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
1936 - Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
1954 - Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1963 (USA)



$0.55
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1963

Tom Jones
directed by Tony Richardson
with Albert Finney (Tom Jones) and Diane Cilento (Molly)

Designed in 1963

The Djinn chaise lounge
by Olivier Mourgue

 
 
 
     

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