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September 19th, 1969...

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 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Honky Tonk Women"
by The Rolling Stones

In the UK:
"In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)"
by Zager & Evans
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Golda Meir

(TIME Cover: September the 19th, 1969)

 Famous people born on the 19th of September:

86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
866 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
1551 - King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
1909 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
1934 - Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (the Beatles) (d. 1967)
1955 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (d. 2006)

 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



Joe Cocker / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 41, September 6, 1969

 

 
 
 
     

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