kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

November 25th, 1973...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Photograph"
by Ringo Starr

In the UK:
"I Love You Love Me Love"
by Gary Glitter
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: King Feisal

(TIME Cover: November the 19th, 1973)

 Famous people born on the 25th of November:

1844 - Karl Benz, German engineer (d. 1929)
1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator
1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
1926 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
1959 - Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion)
1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (d. 1999)

 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973


Brian David Josephson
1940-

for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects

United Kingdom
University of Cambridge - Cambridge, United Kingdom



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1973 (USA)



$0.78
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1973

The Sting
directed by George Roy Hill
with Robert Redford (Johnny Hooker)

Designed in 1973

The Cleopatra lounge
by Geoffrey Harcourt

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Jerry Garcia / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 148, November 22, 1973

 

 
 
 
     

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