January 17th, 1971

January 17th, 1971...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "My Sweet Lord / Isn't It a Pity" by George Harrison In the UK: "Grandad" by Clive Dunn

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ali MacGraw

(TIME Cover: January the 11th, 1971)

Famous people born on the 17th of January:

1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
1911 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1927 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
1933 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
1956 - Paul Young, English musician
1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971

Dennis Gabor
1900-1979

for his invention and development of the holographic method

United Kingdom
Imperial College - London, United Kingdom

Photo: nobelprize.org

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1971 (USA)
	$0.53

Oscar of the best picture in 1971

The French Connection
directed by William Friedkin
with Gene Hackman (Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle) and Roy Scheider (Buddy Russo)

Designed in 1971

The Vision 2000 stereo equipment
by Thilo Oerke

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Leon Russell / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 72, December 10, 1970

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