Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
In the UK:
"Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree" by Dawn
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Jesuit Pedro Arrupe
(TIME Cover: April the 23rd, 1973)
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Famous people born on the 28th of April: |
1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
1937 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq
1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1968 - Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
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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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