Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Kind of a Drag" by The Buckinghams
In the UK:
"This Is My Song" by Petula Clark
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Richard Helms
(TIME Cover: February the 24th, 1967)
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Famous people born on the 25th of February: |
1398 - Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)
1643 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1919)
1873 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
1901 - Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
1943 - George Harrison, British musician (the Beatles) (d. 2001)
1953 - José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain
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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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