July 31st, 1969 - kakorama

July 31st, 1969...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" by Zager and Evans In the UK: "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

(TIME Cover: July the 25th, 1969)

Famous people born on the 31st of July:

1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1803 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
1901 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1912 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2006)
1919 - Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987)
1921 - Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1957 - Daniel Ash, Gothic Rock artist in such bands as Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets
1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 - J.K. Rowling, English autor (Harry Potter)
1978 - Will Champion, English drummer (Coldplay)

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

Jim Morrison / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 38, July 26, 1969

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