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December 6th, 1967...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Daydream Believer"
by The Monkees

In the UK:
"Let The Heartaches Begin"
by Long John Baldry
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Rudi Gernreich

(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1967)

 Famous people born on the 6th of December:

1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1792 - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1948 - Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver
1956 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (the Pixies)

 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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