December 9th, 1966

December 9th, 1966...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band In the UK: "Green Grass Of Home" by Tom Jones

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Winthrop Rockefeller

(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1966)

Famous people born on the 9th of December:

1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1571 - Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
1868 - Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
1991 - Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian Prince

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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