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: Winthrop Rockefeller
(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1966)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of January: |
106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
1196 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
1946 - Victoria Principal, American actress
1946 - John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin)
1956 - Mel Gibson, American actor
1969 - Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
1975 - Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
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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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