| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones
In the UK:
"In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)" by Zager & Evans
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Melvin Laird
(TIME Cover: August the 29th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 1st of September: |
1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d. 1797)
1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
1946 - Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)
1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
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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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