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January 15th, 1969...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Heard It through the Grapevine"
by Marvin Gaye

In the UK:
"Lily The Pink"
by Scaffold
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Senator Edward Kennedy

(TIME Cover: January the 10th, 1969)

 Famous people born on the 15th of January:

1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d. 1975)
1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1950 - Marius Trésor, French footballer
1975 - Mary Pierce, American tennis player

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969


Samuel Beckett
1906-1989

for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation

Ireland



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1969 (USA)



$0.62
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1969

Midnight Cowboy
directed by John Schlesinger
with Dustin Hoffman (Ratso Rizzo), Jon Voight (Joe Buck) and Sylvia Miles (Cass)

Designed in 1969

The Atomic floor lamp
by J.T. Kalmar

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Rob Tyner / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 25, January 4, 1969

 

 
 
 
     

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