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:
"Dizzy" by Tommy Roe
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Temple Fielding
(TIME Cover: June the 6th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 8th of June: |
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
1983 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
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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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