February 26th, 1965

February 26th, 1965...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "This Diamond Ring" by Gary Lewis & the Playboys In the UK: "Tired Of Waiting For You" by The Kinks

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Marshal Chen Yi

(TIME Cover: February the 26th, 1965)

Famous people born on the 26th of February:

1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)
1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist

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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