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February 13th, 1969...

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 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Crimson and Clover"
by Tommy James & the Shondells

In the UK:
"Blackberry Way"
by The Move
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow

(TIME Cover: February the 7th, 1969)

 Famous people born on the 13th of February:

1599 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
1933 - Kim Novak, American actress
1939 - Beate Klarsfeld, German Holocaust investigator/Nazi hunter
1956 - Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order)
1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer

 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



Rob Tyner / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 25, January 4, 1969

 

 
 
 
     

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