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August 2nd, 1965...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
by The Rolling Stones

In the UK:
"Mr Tambourine Man"
by The Byrds
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Marc Chagall

(TIME Cover: July the 30th, 1965)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of August:

1696 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
1868 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
1939 - Wes Craven, American film director
1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
1960 - Neal Morse, American singer, guitarist and keyboardist (Spock's Beard and Transatlantic)

 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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