Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Hey Jude" by The Beatles
In the UK:
"The Good The Bad And The Ugly" by Hugo Montenegro
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Pope Paul VI
(TIME Cover: November the 22nd, 1968)
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Famous people born on the 26th of November: |
1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 146
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
1847 - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1909 - Eugène Ionesco, French playwright (d. 1994)
1931 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1939 - Tina Turner, American singer and actress
1944 - Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
1951 - Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician
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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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