| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Come Together/Something" by The Beatles
In the UK:
"Sugar Sugar" by The Archies
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Raquel Welch
(TIME Cover: November the 28th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of December: |
1368 - King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)
1857 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924)
1884 - Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
1911 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
1934 - Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut
2005 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway
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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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