| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Dizzy" by Tommy Roe
In the UK:
"Where Do You Go To My Lovely" by Peter Sarstedt
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Great Missile Debate
(TIME Cover: March the 14th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 19th of March: |
1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
1900 - Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)
1933 - Philip Roth, American author
1936 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
1943 - Mario Monti, Italian politician
1947 - Glenn Close, American actress
1955 - Bruce Willis, American actor
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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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