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March 28th, 1973...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Love Train"
by The O'Jays

In the UK:
"Cum On Feel The Noize"
by Slade
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: L. Patrick Gray III

(TIME Cover: March the 26th, 1973)

 Famous people born on the 28th of March:

1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

 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



Robert Mitchum / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 130, March 15, 1973

 

 
 
 
     

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