Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Ballad of the Green Berets" by SSgt Barry Sadler
In the UK:
"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" by The Walker Brothers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Hubert H. Humphrey
(TIME Cover: April the 1st, 1966)
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Famous people born on the 5th of April: |
1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)
1479 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
1937 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
1950 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA)
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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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