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April 29th, 1971...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Joy to the World"
by Three Dog Night

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

TIME Magazine: Yanks in Peking

(TIME Cover: April the 26th, 1971)

 Famous people born on the 29th of April:

534 - Taliesin, the bard, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion
1854 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)
1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress

 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



Michael Jackson / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 81, April 29, 1971

 

 
 
 
     

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