| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Fingertips Pt. 2" by Little Stevie Wonder
In the UK:
"Sweets For My Sweet" by The Searchers
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Famous people born on the 20th of August: |
1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
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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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