| Number-one song in the charts today |
 |
In the USA:
"Baby Love" by The Supremes
In the UK:
"(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me" by Sandie Shaw
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
 |
TIME Magazine: Edmund N. Bacon
(TIME Cover: November the 6th, 1964)
|
Famous people born on the 11th of November: |
1050 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
1154 - King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
1155 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
1493 - Paracelsus, doctor (d. 1541)
1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
1903 - Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born film producer (d. 1985)
1904 - Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1994)
1944 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician (The Youngbloods)
1945 - Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
1962 - Demi Moore, American actress
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, 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 |
|