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December 24th, 1963...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Dominique"
by The Singing Nun

In the UK:
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"
by The Beatles
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Dean Rusk

(TIME Cover: December the 6th, 1963)

 Famous people born on the 24th of December:

1166 - King John of England (d. 1216)
1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)
1818 - James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)
1837 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
1845 - King George I of Greece (d. 1913)
1886 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962)
1905 - Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
1922 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
1929 - Mary Higgins Clark, American author
1945 - Lemmy Kilmister, British singer, bassist (Motörhead)
1957 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican 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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