| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Ruby Tuesday" by The Rolling Stones
In the UK:
"Release Me" by Engelbert Humperdinck
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Hugh Hefner
(TIME Cover: March the 3rd, 1967)
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Famous people born on the 9th of March: |
1285 - Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (d. 1318)
1629 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
1749 - Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
1942 - John Cale, Welsh musician, (The Velvet Underground)
1964 - Juliette Binoche, French actress
1968 - Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
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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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