| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Heard It through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye
In the UK:
"Lily The Pink" by Scaffold
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Race for the Moon
(TIME Cover: December the 6th, 1968)
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Famous people born on the 30th of December: |
39 - Roman Emperor Titus (d. 81)
1204 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (d. 1282)
1673 - Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)
1865 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
1935 - Omar Bongo, President of Gabon
1942 - Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident
1946 - Patti Smith, American singer
1969 - Jay Kay, English musician and singer (Jamiroquai)
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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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