| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March
In the UK:
"How Do You Do It" by Gerry & The Pacemakers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Richard Burton
(TIME Cover: April the 26th, 1963)
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Famous people born on the 1st of May: |
1218 - Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)
1804 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860)
1852 - Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)
1917 - Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress
1946 - Joanna Lumley, British actress
1946 - John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, writer, and actor
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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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