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October 30th, 1964...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
by Manfred Mann

In the UK:
"(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me"
by Sandie Shaw
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Senator Kenneth Keating

(TIME Cover: October the 30th, 1964)

 Famous people born on the 30th of October:

1218 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
1735 - John Adams, American revolutionary leader and President of the United States (d. 1826)
1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
1871 - Paul Valery, French poet (d. 1945)
1939 - Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
1947 - Timothy B. Schmit, bass guitarist (Eagles)
1960 - Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballe

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964


Jean-Paul Sartre
1905-1980

for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age

France



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1964 (USA)



$0.54
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1964

My Fair Lady
directed by George Cukor
with Rex Harrison (Professor Henry Higgins), Stanley Holloway (Alfred P. Doolittle) and Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Higgins)

Designed in 1964

The Telephone 'Grillo'
by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper

 
 
 
     

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