August 13th, 1967

August 13th, 1967...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Light My Fire" by The Doors In the UK: "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Whitney M. Young Jr.

(TIME Cover: August the 11th, 1967)

Famous people born on the 13th of August:

1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
1313 - Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch
1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
1818 - Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893
1899 - Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
1952 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2004)
1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer

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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