Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-Las
In the UK:
"Baby Love" by The Supremes
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Lammot Copeland
(TIME Cover: November the 27th, 1964)
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Famous people born on the 28th of November: |
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)
1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown
1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)
1962 - Matt Cameron, American drummer (Pearl Jam)
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964 |
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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
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1964 (USA) |
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$0.54 |
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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)
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Designed in 1964 |
The Telephone 'Grillo'
by Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper |
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