Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Where Did Our Love Go" by The Supremes
In the UK:
"Have I The Right" by The Honeycombs
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Lady Bird Johnson
(TIME Cover: August the 28th, 1964)
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Famous people born on the 29th of August: |
1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
1923 - Richard Attenborough, English film director
1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer
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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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