Tuesday 25 October 1960
It was Tuesday, under the sign of Scorpio (see planets position on October 25, 1960). The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Tom Eplin and Hong Sang-soo.
In that special week of October people in US were listening to I Want To Be Wanted (Per Tutta La Vita) by Brenda Lee.
In UK Tell Laura I Love Her by Ricky Valance was in the top 5 hits.
North to Alaska, directed by Henry Hathaway, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1960
while The Waste Makers by Vance Packard was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching No Man's Island.
But much more happened that day: find out below..
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Historical Events
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Holidays:
- Day of the Romanian Army
- Virgin Islands - Thanksgiving Day : end of the hurricane season
- Republic of China - Taiwan Retrocession Day (1945)
- Also see October 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- R.C. Saints - Feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispian; Six Welsh martyrs and companions; forty martyrs of England and Wales
- Kazakhstan - Republic Day
Famous Birthdays:
- Tom Eplin: American actor seen in the TV soap "Days of Our Lives" in the 1980s.
- Hong Sang-soo
- Chris Buck: Director.
- Kelli McMullen-Temple: Columbus, Ohio -- Canadian equestrian (1996 Olympics).
- Scott Anthony Haneline: Indianapolis, Indiana -- Murderer (FBI Most Wanted List).
- June Brigman: American illustrator.
Famous Deaths:
- Jose Padilla: Composer, dies at 71.
- Harry Ferguson: Irish-English engineer invented the tractor (d. 1960).
Facts:
- 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City
- Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
- First electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City.
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Magazine Covers
What news were making the headlines those days in October 1960?
- LIFE: Nancy Kwan
- Time: TIME Magazine Cover: Gov. Paul Bagwell -- Oct. 24, 1960
- SportsIllustrated: Sports Illustrated: no.7689
- Beano: Your personalised Beano Book from 1960
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Music Charts
Which were the top hits in that special week of October 1960 ?
Top #10 songs in the USA
- Brenda Lee - I Want To Be Wanted (Per Tutta La Vita)
- The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me
- Chubby Checker - The Twist
- Connie Francis - My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own
- Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
- Bobby Vee - Devil Or Angel
- Bob Luman - Let's Think About Living
- The Everly Brothers - So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
- Larry Verne - Mr. Custer
- Ferrante and Teicher - Theme From The Apartment
Top #10 R&B songs
- Brook Benton - Kiddio
- The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me
- Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind
- Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
- Ike & Tina Turner - A Fool In Love
- Hank Ballard And The Midnighters - Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go
- Etta James - My Dearest Darling
- Chubby Checker - The Twist
- Bill Black's Combo - Don't Be Cruel
- Little Willie John - Sleep
Books
Which were the most popular books released in the last weeks ?
The Waste Makers
An exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of
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Folk Medicine
In an essential work for any sufferer of the debilitating illness, the best-selling author of Folk Medicine focuses his extraordinary talents on providing natural and effective remedies for
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The Lovely Ambition
“Readers who have come to expect Miss Chase to provide stunning evocations of time and place, particularly of nineteenth-century Maine, will not be disappointed by The Lovely Ambition.”
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How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market
2011 reprint of 1960 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Hungarian by birth, Nicolas Darvas trained as an economist at the University of Budapest.
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