Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Heard It through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye
In the UK:
"Lily The Pink" by Scaffold
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Giovanni Agnelli
(TIME Cover: January the 17th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 17th of January: |
1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
1911 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1927 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
1933 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
1956 - Paul Young, English musician
1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 |
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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
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1969 (USA) |
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$0.62 |
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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)
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Designed in 1969 |
The Atomic floor lamp
by J.T. Kalmar |
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