| 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:
"Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" by Marmalade
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Richard Nixon
(TIME Cover: January the 24th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 25th of January: |
750 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor
1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2003)
1955 - Terry Chimes, co-founder and drummer of the British punk rock band The Clash
1981 - Alicia Keys, American singer and musician
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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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