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 13th of November: |
1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
1504 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
1760 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (d. 1820)
1848 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
1938 - Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and singer
1978 - Nikolai Fraiture Bass player for NYC based band The Strokes
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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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