Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"One Bad Apple" by The Osmonds
In the UK:
"My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Welfare Maze, The
(TIME Cover: February the 8th, 1971)
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Famous people born on the 14th of February: |
1483 - Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, Moghul emperor of India (d. 1530)
1869 - Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959)
1943 - Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)
1944 - Alan Parker, British film director and writer
1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (d. 2003)
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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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