| Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 |
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TIME Magazine: Los Angeles Riot
(TIME Cover: August the 20th, 1965)
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Famous people born on the 21st of August: |
1165 - King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1789 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
1930 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)
1952 - Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze/Deep Purple)
1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1971 - Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)
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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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