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August 4th, 1963...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"So Much in Love"
by The Tymes

In the UK:
"(You're The) Devil In Disguise"
by Elvis Presley
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: W. Averell Harriman

(TIME Cover: August the 2nd, 1963)

 Famous people born on the 4th of August:

1521 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
1755 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (d. 1805)
1834 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, 5th Prime Minister of Spain

 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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