Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Get Back" by The Beatles with Billy Preston
In the UK:
"Get Back" by The Beatles with Billy Preston
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Vladimir Nabokov
(TIME Cover: May the 23rd, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 25th of May: |
1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 - Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1960 - Guy Fletcher, keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Miss Iceland, crowned Miss World in 2005
1993 - The Dilley sextuplets, first surviving set of sextuplets in the United States
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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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