November 12th, 1966

November 12th, 1966...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Poor Side of Town" by Johnny Rivers In the UK: "Reach Out I'll Be There" by The Four Tops

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Bishop Pike

(TIME Cover: November the 11th, 1966)

Famous people born on the 12th of November:

1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, first President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
1915 - Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
1929 - Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (d. 1982)
1936 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician
1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast

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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