| 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: Nguyen Van Thieu
(TIME Cover: March the 28th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 28th of March: |
1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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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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