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July 18th, 1971...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"It's Too Late / I Feel the Earth Move"
by Carole King

In the UK:
"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"
by Middle Of The Road
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Joe Colombo Sr.

(TIME Cover: July the 12th, 1971)

 Famous people born on the 18th of July:

1552 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat and President (d. 1989)
1917 - Henri Salvador, French singe
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureat
1921 - John Glenn, Mercury Seven astronaut and United States Senator from Ohio
1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers
1963 - Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama

 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



Tricia Nixon / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 85, June 24, 1971

 

 
 
 
     

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