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December 8th, 1969...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
by Steam

In the UK:
"Sugar Sugar"
by The Archies
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant William Calley Jr.

(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1969)

 Famous people born on the 8th of December:

65 BC - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)
1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
1765 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
1861 - Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944)
1864 - Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet Union-born cosmonaut
1936 - David Carradine, American actor
1943 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
1957 - Phil Collen, British guitarist (Def Leppard)
1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician

 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



Bob Dylan (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 47, November 29, 1969

 

 
 
 
     

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