Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)" by The Fifth Dimension
In the UK:
"The Israelites" by Desmond Dekker & The Aces
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: John Harvard
(TIME Cover: April the 18th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 19th of April: |
1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1504)
1793 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
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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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