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August 1st, 1966...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Wild Thing"
by The Troggs

In the UK:
"Out Of Time"
by Chris Farlowe
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lauren Bacall

(TIME Cover: July the 29th, 1966)

 Famous people born on the 1st of August:

10 BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1313 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
1819 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
1893 - King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
1924 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer
1942 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
1960 - Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
1963 - Coolio, American rapper
1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director

 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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