| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"96 Tears" by ? & the Mysterians
In the UK:
"Reach Out I'll Be There" by The Four Tops
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Lyndon B. Johnson
(TIME Cover: November the 4th, 1966)
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Famous people born on the 4th of November: |
1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower
1901 - Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (The Pretenders) (d. 1982)
1969 - Sean Jean 'Diddy' Combs, American rapper
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966 |
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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
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1966 (USA) |
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$0.60 |
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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)
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Designed in 1966 |
The Helicoid staircase
by Roger Tallon |
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