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November 1st, 1963...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 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
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ludwig Erhard

(TIME Cover: November the 1st, 1963)

 Famous people born on the 1st of November:

846 - Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (d. 879)
1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
1946 - Ric Grech, English rock bassist (Family, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Traffic) (d. 1990)
1951 - Ronald Bell, American singer and saxophonist (Kool & the Gang)
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1967 - Tina Arena, Australian singer

 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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