October 16th, 1966

October 16th, 1966...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Reach Out I'll Be There" by The Four Tops In the UK: "Distant Drums" by Jim Reeves

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Walter Cronkite

(TIME Cover: October the 14th, 1966)

Famous people born on the 16th of October:

1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1914 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966

Robert S. Mulliken
1896-1986

for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method

USA
University of Chicago - Chicago, IL, USA

Photo: nobelprize.org

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1966 (USA)
	$0.60

Oscar of the best picture in 1966

A Man for All Seasons
directed by Fred Zinnemann
with Paul Scofield (Sir Thomas More), Robert Shaw (King Henry VIII) and Wendy Hiller (Alice More)

Designed in 1966

The Helicoid staircase
by Roger Tallon

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