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 27th of January: |
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
1944 - Nick Mason, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order)
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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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