December 31st, 1969

December 31st, 1969...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Someday We'll Be Together" by Diana Ross & The Supremes In the UK: "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant William Calley Jr.

(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1969)

Famous people born on the 31st of December:

1378 - Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)
1491 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)
1514 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
1572 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617)
1830 - Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (d. 1895)
1869 - Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954)
1937 - Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
1942 - Andy Summers, British musician (The Police)
1943 - Ben Kingsley, English actor
1948 - Donna Summer, American singer
1951 - Tom Hamilton, American musician (Aerosmith)
1963 - Scott Ian, American musician (Anthrax)

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

Miles Davis / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 48, December 13, 1969

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