Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Love Me Do" by The Beatles
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: Frederick R. Kappel
(TIME Cover: May the 29th, 1964)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of June: |
1540 - Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor
1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
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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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