Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"A World Without Love" by Peter & Gordon
In the UK:
"It's Over" by Roy Orbison
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Princess Anne-Marie
(TIME Cover: July the 3rd, 1964)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of July: |
1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)
1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor
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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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