kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

April 2nd, 1971...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Me and Bobby McGee"
by Janis Joplin

In the UK:
"Hot Love"
by T.Rex
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Kremlin Roulette

(TIME Cover: March the 29th, 1971)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of April:

1348 - Andronicus IV Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor
1510 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1550)
1653 - Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England (d. 1708)
1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (d. 1798)
1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
1840 - Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
1875 - Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
1891 - Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976)
1928 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
1939 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984)
1961 - Keren Woodward, British singer (Bananarama)
1962 - Pierre Carles, French documentarist

 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



Muhammad Ali / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 78, March 18, 1971

 

 
 
 
     

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