| Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 |
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TIME Magazine: Roger Staubach
(TIME Cover: October the 18th, 1963)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of October: |
1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
1903 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
1913 - Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican musician
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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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