December 2nd, 1965

December 2nd, 1965...

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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

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jimmy Brown, Cleveland Browns Football Star

(TIME Cover: November the 26th, 1965)

Famous people born on the 2nd of December:

1825 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)
1859 - Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
1906 - Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)
1923 - Maria Callas, American soprano (d. 1977)
1933 - K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
1944 - Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
1946 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
1960 - Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)
1968 - Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
1981 - Britney Spears, American singer

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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