| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies
In the UK:
"Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus" by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Willy Brandt
(TIME Cover: October the 10th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 15th of October: |
70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
1542 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (died 160
1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
1893 - King Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
1946 - Richard Carpenter, American musician (Carpenters)
1959 - Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
1964 - Roberto Vittori, Italian astronaut
1968 - Didier Deschamps, French football player
2005 - Prince Christian of Denmark, Prince of Denmark
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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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