Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Harper Valley PTA" by Jeannie C. Riley
In the UK:
"Hey Jude" by The Beatles
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Spiro Agnew
(TIME Cover: September the 20th, 1968)
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Famous people born on the 24th of September: |
15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1501 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
1724 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1857 - Richard Mansfield, German-born actor (d. 1907)
1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
1930 - John W. Young, American astronaut
1951 - Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish movie director
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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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