Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles
In the UK:
"World Without Love" by Peter & Gordon
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Vladimir I. Lenin
(TIME Cover: April the 24th, 1964)
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Famous people born on the 28th of April: |
1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
1937 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq
1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1968 - Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
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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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