Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Top of the World" by Carpenters
In the UK:
"I Love You Love Me Love" by Gary Glitter
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: U.S. Energy Crisis
(TIME Cover: December the 3rd, 1973)
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Famous people born on the 7th of December: |
1545 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)
1905 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 1973)
1924 - Mário Soares, President of Portugal
1949 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
2003 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 |
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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
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1973 (USA) |
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$0.78 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1973 |
The Sting
directed by George Roy Hill
with Robert Redford (Johnny Hooker)
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Designed in 1973 |
The Cleopatra lounge
by Geoffrey Harcourt |
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