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:
"The Ballad Of John & Yoko" by The Beatles
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Famous people born on the 19th of June: |
1301 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
1764 - José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
1896 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
1947 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author
1962 - Paula Abdul, American singer
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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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