August 15th, 1965

August 15th, 1965...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher In the UK: "Help!" by The Beatles

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lal Bahadur Shastri

(TIME Cover: August the 13th, 1965)

Famous people born on the 15th of August:

1171 - King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)
1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (d. 1821
1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist (d. 1832)
1893 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)
1896 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)
1925 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
1945 - Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, Indian guru
1950 - The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom

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

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