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September 17th, 1968...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"People Got to Be Free"
by The Rascals

In the UK:
"Hey Jude"
by The Beatles
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Denny McClain

(TIME Cover: September the 13th, 1968)

 Famous people born on the 17th of September:

879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1860 - Billy the Kid (d. 1881)
1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer

 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



Zap Comix Mouse / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 17, September 14, 1968

 

 
 
 
     

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