| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Theme From Shaft" by Isaac Hayes
In the UK:
"Cos I Luv You" by Slade
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Beverly Sills
(TIME Cover: November the 22nd, 1971)
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Famous people born on the 28th of November: |
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)
1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown
1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)
1962 - Matt Cameron, American drummer (Pearl Jam)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971 |
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Dennis Gabor
1900-1979
for his invention and development of the holographic method
United Kingdom
Imperial College - London, United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1971 (USA) |
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$0.53 |
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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)
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Designed in 1971 |
The Vision 2000 stereo equipment
by Thilo Oerke |
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