Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin
In the UK:
"Hot Love" by T.Rex
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: George C. Scott
(TIME Cover: March the 22nd, 1971)
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Famous people born on the 26th of March: |
1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer andsongwriter
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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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