Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels
In the UK:
"She Loves You" by The Beatles
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Red China
(TIME Cover: September the 13th, 1963)
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Famous people born on the 18th of September: |
53 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (d. 117)
1733 - George Read, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
1765 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
1819 - Leon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
1905 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
1923 - Queen Anne of Romania
1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (d. 2002)
1952 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002)
1954 - Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut
1971 - Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
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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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