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April 7th, 1964...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Can't Buy Me Love"
by The Beatles

In the UK:
"Can't Buy Me Love"
by The Beatles
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Prince Sihanouk

(TIME Cover: April the 3rd, 1964)

 Famous people born on the 7th of April:

1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef

 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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