February 26th, 1967

February 26th, 1967...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Kind of a Drag" by The Buckinghams In the UK: "This Is My Song" by Petula Clark

Find books and music

TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Richard Helms

(TIME Cover: February the 24th, 1967)

Famous people born on the 26th of February:

1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)
1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist

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

	Jump to another date:
	and click to see what happened:

play crystal ball gazing with the-crystal-ball.com
or translate text into nightingale language on nightingale-song.com
or send singing birthday messages with the kakomessenger
or compose your ringtone for free with the kakophone machine