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November 25th, 1965...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Hear a Symphony"
by The Supremes

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 25th of November:

1844 - Karl Benz, German engineer (d. 1929)
1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator
1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
1926 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
1959 - Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion)
1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (d. 1999)

 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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