October 20th, 1963

October 20th, 1963...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs In the UK: "Do You Love Me" by Brian Poole & The Tremeloes

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Roger Staubach

(TIME Cover: October the 18th, 1963)

Famous people born on the 20th of October:

1469 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (d. 1539)
1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczynski, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan
1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper

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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