kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

December 11th, 1966...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Good Vibrations"
by The Beach Boys

In the UK:
"Green Grass Of Home"
by Tom Jones
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Winthrop Rockefeller

(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1966)

 Famous people born on the 11th of December:

1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)
1908 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)
1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1913 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - John Kerry, American politician
1954 - Jermaine Jackson, American musician

 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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