Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence
In the UK:
"Get Down" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Senator Sam Ervin
(TIME Cover: April the 16th, 1973)
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Famous people born on the 16th of April: |
778 - King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1319 - King John II of France (d. 1364)
1889 - Charles Chaplin, English actor, writer, and film producer (d. 1977)
1921 - Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
1940 - Margrethe II of Denmark, queen regnant
1953 - Peter Garrett, Australian musician (Midnight Oil)
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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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