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July 2nd, 1964...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"A World Without Love"
by Peter & Gordon

In the UK:
"It's Over"
by Roy Orbison
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: General Kong Le

(TIME Cover: June the 26th, 1964)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of July:

419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
1714 - Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1903 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1927 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
1930 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
1956 - Jerry Hall, American actress and model

 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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