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August 17th, 1965...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 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
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lal Bahadur Shastri

(TIME Cover: August the 13th, 1965)

 Famous people born on the 17th of August:

1629 - King John III of Poland
1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1844 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1926 - Jiang Zemin, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China
1933 - Gene Kranz, NASA flight director
1939 - Luther Allison, American blues guitarist
1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian formula one driver
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1956 - Gail Berman, president of Paramount Pictures
1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses

 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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