Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Hey Jude" by The Beatles
In the UK:
"Those Were The Days" by Mary Hopkin
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Law and Order
(TIME Cover: October the 4th, 1968)
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Famous people born on the 9th of October: |
1261 - King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1757 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1935 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family
1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
1944 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 |
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Luis Walter Alvarez
1911-1988
for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis
USA
University of California - Berkeley, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1968 (USA) |
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$0.53 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1968 |
Oliver!
directed by Carol Reed
with Ron Moody (Fagin) and Jack Wild (The Artful Dodger)
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Designed in 1968 |
The Bouloum chaise
by Olivier Mourgue |
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