October 2nd, 1967

October 2nd, 1967...

Today is Monday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "The Letter" by Box Tops In the UK: "The Last Waltz" by Engelbert Humperdinck

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Mr. and Mrs. Guy Smith

(TIME Cover: September the 29th, 1967)

Famous people born on the 2nd of October:

1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, American author and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
1798 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Bapu, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)
1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
1950 - Michael Rutherford, British musician (Genesis)
1951 - Sting, British musician and actor
1968 - Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967

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

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1967 (USA)
	$0.49

Oscar of the best picture in 1967

In the Heat of the Night
directed by Norman Jewison
with Rod Steiger (Police Chief Bill Gillespie)

Designed in 1967

The Panton chair
by Verner Panton

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