| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"This Guy's in Love with You" by Herb Alpert
In the UK:
"Jumping Jack Flash" by The Rolling Stones
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Robert F. Kennedy
(TIME Cover: June the 14th, 1968)
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Famous people born on the 26th of June: |
1819 - Abner Doubleday, Major General, United States Army and purported inventor of baseball (d. 1893)
1899 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1909 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
1925 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (d. 1970)
1955 - Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite)
1956 - Chris Isaak, American singer
1957 - Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)
1969 - Colin Greenwood, British musician (Radiohead)
2005 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
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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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