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December 1st, 1963...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I'm Leaving It Up to You"
by Dale & Grace

In the UK:
"She Loves You"
by The Beatles
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lyndon B. Johnson

(TIME Cover: November the 29th, 1963)

 Famous people born on the 1st of December:

1081 - Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
1761 - Marie Tussaud, creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)
1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral and Central Intelligence Agency director
1923 - Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
1935 - Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
1944 - John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
1944 - Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
1945 - Bette Midler, American actress
1947 - Alain Bashung, French singer
1949 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
2001 - Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan

 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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