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February 28th, 1973...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Killing Me Softly with His Song"
by Roberta Flack

In the UK:
"Blockbuster"
by The Sweet
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: George Shultz

(TIME Cover: February the 26th, 1973)

 Famous people born on the 28th of February:

1533 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer and philosopher (d. 1592)
1820 - John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892)
1903 - Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)
1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin
1942 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)

 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



Bette Midler / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 128, February 15, 1973

 

 
 
 
     

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