November 2nd, 1969

November 2nd, 1969...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley In the UK: "Sugar Sugar" by The Archies

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Homosexuality

(TIME Cover: October the 31st, 1969)

Famous people born on the 2nd of November:

1082 - Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1709 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
1844 - Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
1877 - Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
1906 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
1913 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
1920 - Ann Rutherford, American actress
1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain
1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
1942 - Stefanie Powers, American actress
1966 - David Schwimmer, American actor

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969

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

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1969 (USA)
	$0.62

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)

Designed in 1969

The Atomic floor lamp
by J.T. Kalmar

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Tina Turner / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 45, November 1, 1969

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