April 1st, 1973 - kakorama

April 1st, 1973...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack In the UK: "Twelfth Of Never" by Donny Osmond

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: L. Patrick Gray III

(TIME Cover: March the 26th, 1973)

Famous people born on the 1st of April:

1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1815 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)
1868 - Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918)
1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
1983 - Franck Ribery, French footballer

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

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 131, March 29, 1973

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