Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Can't Get Next to You" by The Temptations
In the UK:
"Sugar Sugar" by The Archies
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Nixon and Vietnam
(TIME Cover: October the 24th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 29th of October: |
1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1917 - Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1955 - Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress
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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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