| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles
In the UK:
"Anyone Who Had A Heart" by Cilla Black
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Thelonius Monk
(TIME Cover: February the 28th, 1964)
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Famous people born on the 5th of March: |
1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1918 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1942 - Felipe González Márquez, Prime Minister of Spain
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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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