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April 28th, 1969...

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 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)"
by The Fifth Dimension

In the UK:
"Get Back"
by The Beatles with Billy Preston
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ethel Kennedy

(TIME Cover: April the 25th, 1969)

 Famous people born on the 28th of April:

1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
1937 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq
1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1968 - Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson)

 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



American Revolution 1969 / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 30, April 5, 1969

 

 
 
 
     

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