October 26th, 1965

October 26th, 1965...

Today is Tuesday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Yesterday" by The Beatles In the UK: "Tears" by Ken Dodd

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Vietnam War

(TIME Cover: October the 22nd, 1965)

Famous people born on the 26th of October:

1491 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
1802 - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1913 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1991)
1916 - François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator
1959 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia

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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