August 17th, 1967

August 17th, 1967...

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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 17th of August:

1629 - King John III of Poland
1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1844 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1926 - Jiang Zemin, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China
1933 - Gene Kranz, NASA flight director
1939 - Luther Allison, American blues guitarist
1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian formula one driver
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1956 - Gail Berman, president of Paramount Pictures
1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses

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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