Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Wedding Bell Blues" by The Fifth Dimension
In the UK:
"Sugar Sugar" by The Archies
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Homosexuality
(TIME Cover: October the 31st, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 10th of November: |
1483 - Martin Luther, German protestant reformer (d. 1546)
1683 - George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
1888 - Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
1954 - Mario Cipollina, American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News)
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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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