April 2nd, 1969 - kakorama

April 2nd, 1969...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe In the UK: "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Nguyen Van Thieu

(TIME Cover: March the 28th, 1969)

Famous people born on the 2nd of April:

1348 - Andronicus IV Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor
1510 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1550)
1653 - Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England (d. 1708)
1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (d. 1798)
1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
1840 - Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
1875 - Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
1891 - Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976)
1928 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
1939 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984)
1961 - Keren Woodward, British singer (Bananarama)
1962 - Pierre Carles, French documentarist

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

Janis Joplin / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 29, March 15, 1969

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