Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding
In the UK:
"The Legend Of Xanadu" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
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Famous people born on the 23rd of March: |
1723 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)
1749 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
1887 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
1944 - Michael Nyman, British minimalist composer
1968 - Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur and Gorillaz)
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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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