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October 8th, 1964...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Oh, Pretty Woman"
by Roy Orbison

In the UK:
"I'm Into Something Good"
by Herman's Hermits
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lee Harvey Oswald

(TIME Cover: October the 2nd, 1964)

 Famous people born on the 8th of October:

1895 - Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)
1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor
1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
1950 - Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)
1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)
1970 - Matt Damon, American actor

 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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