Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" by The Four Tops
In the UK:
"Crying In The Chapel" by Elvis Presley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Phyllis McGinley
(TIME Cover: June the 18th, 1965)
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Famous people born on the 24th of June: |
1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
1900 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
1948 - Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes)
1949 - John Illsley, British bassist (Dire Straits)
1961 - Curt Smith, musician and songwriter (Tears for Fears)
1970 - Glenn Medeiros, American singer
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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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