Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'm Telling You Now" by Freddie and the Dreamers
In the UK:
"The Minute You're Gone" by Cliff Richard
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Rudolph Nureyev
(TIME Cover: April the 16th, 1965)
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Famous people born on the 20th of April: |
570 - Muhammad (possible date of birth), Prophet of Islam (d. 632)
1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
1808 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1873)
1908 - Lionel Hampton, American musician (d. 2002)
1923 - Tito Puente, American musician (d. 2000)
1949 - Jessica Lange, American actress
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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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