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November 19th, 1965...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Get Off of My Cloud"
by The Rolling Stones

In the UK:
"Get Off My Cloud"
by The Rolling Stones
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Biggest Blackout, The

(TIME Cover: November the 19th, 1965)

 Famous people born on the 19th of November:

1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1946)
1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
1961 - Meg Ryan, American actres
1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
1997 - McCaughey septuplets, World's first surviving set of septuplets

 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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