Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'm a Believer" by The Monkees
In the UK:
"Green Grass Of Home" by Tom Jones
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mao Tse-tung
(TIME Cover: January the 13th, 1967)
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Famous people born on the 18th of January: |
885 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
1689 - Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
1904 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
1947 - Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer
1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967 |
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Hans Albrecht Bethe
1906-2005
for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars
USA
Cornell University - Ithaca, NY, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1967 (USA) |
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$0.49 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1967 |
In the Heat of the Night
directed by Norman Jewison
with Rod Steiger (Police Chief Bill Gillespie)
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Designed in 1967 |
The Panton chair
by Verner Panton |
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