| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Go Away Little Girl" by Donny Osmond
In the UK:
"Hey Girl Don't Bother Me" by The Tams
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: B. F. Skinner
(TIME Cover: September the 20th, 1971)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of September: |
480 BC - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor
1926 - John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
1930 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
1938 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)
1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
1961 - Willie McCool, American astronaut (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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