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August 22nd, 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
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Mafia, The

(TIME Cover: August the 22nd, 1969)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of August:

1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer (d. 1906)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer, humorist (d. 1967)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)

 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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