Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Chapel of Love" by The Dixie Cups
In the UK:
"You're My World" by Cilla Black
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Barry Goldwater
(TIME Cover: June the 12th, 1964)
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Famous people born on the 12th of June: |
1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)
1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
1908 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
1915 - David Rockefeller, American banker
1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
1952 - Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
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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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