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February 10th, 1964...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
by The Beatles

In the UK:
"Needles & Pins"
by The Searchers
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Couve De Murville

(TIME Cover: February the 7th, 1964)

 Famous people born on the 10th of February:

1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Robert Wagner, 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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