October 2nd, 1965

October 2nd, 1965...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Hang on Sloopy" by The McCoys In the UK: "Tears" by Ken Dodd

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Water

(TIME Cover: October the 1st, 1965)

Famous people born on the 2nd of October:

1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, American author and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
1798 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Bapu, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)
1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
1950 - Michael Rutherford, British musician (Genesis)
1951 - Sting, British musician and actor
1968 - Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965

Robert Burns Woodward
1917-1979

for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis

USA
Harvard University - Cambridge, MA, USA

Photo: nobelprize.org

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1965 (USA)
	$0.53

Oscar of the best picture in 1965

The Sound of Music
directed by Robert Wise
with Julie Andrews (Maria) and Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess)

Designed in 1965

The Kantarelli suite
by Eero Aarnio

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