| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Eight Days a Week" by The Beatles
In the UK:
"It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Belaunde Terry
(TIME Cover: March the 12th, 1965)
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Famous people born on the 15th of March: |
1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
1914 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
1940 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1941 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1943 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
1948 - Kate Bornstein (born Albert Bornstein), American transgender author and gender theorist
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965 |
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Robert Burns Woodward
1917-1979
for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis
USA
Harvard University - Cambridge, MA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1965 (USA) |
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$0.53 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1965 |
The Sound of Music
directed by Robert Wise
with Julie Andrews (Maria) and Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess)
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Designed in 1965 |
The Kantarelli suite
by Eero Aarnio |
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