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:
"Get Back" by The Beatles with Billy Preston
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Robert H. Finch
(TIME Cover: May the 2nd, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 7th of May: |
1833 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
1892 - Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
1901 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry, Swedish musician
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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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