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June 21st, 1967...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Groovin'"
by The Young Rascals

In the UK:
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale"
by Procol Harum
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: General Moshe Dayan

(TIME Cover: June the 16th, 1967)

 Famous people born on the 21st of June:

1002 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
1921 - Jane Russell, American actress
1944 - Ray Davies, English musician (The Kinks)
1950 - Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
1953 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1955 - Michel Platini, French footballer
1958 - Gennady Padalka, cosmonaut
1982 - Prince William of Wales, British prince

 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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