May 18th, 1964 - kakorama

May 18th, 1964...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "My Guy" by Mary Wells In the UK: "Don't Throw Your Love Away" by The Searchers

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

(TIME Cover: May the 15th, 1964)

Famous people born on the 18th of May:

1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet (d. 1131)
1868 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov , Nicholas II, Last Emperor of Russia. (d. 1918)
1897 - Frank Capra, American producer, director, and writer (d. 1991)
1914 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982)
1920 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
1950 - Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, musician, and singer (Devo)
1960 - Yannick Noah, French tennis player

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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