Number-one song in the charts today |
|
In the USA:
"I'm Telling You Now" by Freddie and the Dreamers
In the UK:
"Concrete And Clay" by Unit Four Plus Two
|
Famous people born on the 15th of April: |
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic polymath (d. 1519)
1642 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)
1912 - Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
1939 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress
1966 - Samantha Fox, English 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 |
|