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February 19th, 1965...

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 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"
by The Righteous Brothers

In the UK:
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"
by The Righteous Brothers
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: General Westmoreland

(TIME Cover: February the 19th, 1965)

 Famous people born on the 19th of February:

1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)
1876 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)
1924 - Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
1957 - Falco, Austrian singer (d. 1998)
1962 - Hana Mandlikova, Czech tennis player
1963 - Seal, British 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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