| 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 25th of September: |
1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain
1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)
1955 - Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
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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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