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August 22nd, 1967...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"All You Need Is Love"
by The Beatles

In the UK:
"San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)"
by Scott McKenzie
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Bus Mosbacher

(TIME Cover: August the 18th, 1967)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of August:

1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer (d. 1906)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer, humorist (d. 1967)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)

 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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