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November 19th, 1968...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Hey Jude"
by The Beatles

In the UK:
"The Good The Bad And The Ugly"
by Hugo Montenegro
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Richard Nixon

(TIME Cover: November the 15th, 1968)

 Famous people born on the 19th of November:

1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1946)
1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
1961 - Meg Ryan, American actres
1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
1997 - McCaughey septuplets, World's first surviving set of septuplets

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1968 (USA)



$0.53
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1968

Oliver!
directed by Carol Reed
with Ron Moody (Fagin) and Jack Wild (The Artful Dodger)

Designed in 1968

The Bouloum chaise
by Olivier Mourgue

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Drugs in the Army / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 21, November 9, 1968

 

 
 
 
     

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