Number-one song in the charts today |
|
In the USA:
"If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul
In the UK:
"From Me To You" by The Beatles
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
|
TIME Magazine: James Baldwin
(TIME Cover: May the 17th, 1963)
|
Famous people born on the 21st of May: |
1471 - Albrecht Dürer, German painter (d. 1528)
1527 - King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
1860 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989)
1943 - Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals)
1945 - Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
1972 - The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d. 1997)
|
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 |
|