Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Ticket to Ride" by The Beatles
In the UK:
"Where Are You Now (My Love)" by Jackie Trent
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Famous people born on the 25th of May: |
1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 - Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1960 - Guy Fletcher, keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Miss Iceland, crowned Miss World in 2005
1993 - The Dilley sextuplets, first surviving set of sextuplets in the United States
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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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