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November 30th, 1965...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Hear a Symphony"
by The Supremes

In the UK:
"The Carnival Is Over"
by The Seekers
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jimmy Brown, Cleveland Browns Football Star

(TIME Cover: November the 26th, 1965)

 Famous people born on the 30th of November:

1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1810 - Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910)
1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1912 - Gordon Parks, American photographer, film director, composer and writer (d. 2006)
1936 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
1937 - Ridley Scott, British film director
1945 - Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
1955 - Billy Idol, British musician

 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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