Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 |
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TIME Magazine: Muammar Gaddafi
(TIME Cover: April the 2nd, 1973)
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Famous people born on the 4th of April: |
186 - Caracalla, Roman emperor (d. 217)
1819 - Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
1846 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
1914 - Marguerite Duras, French writer (d. 1996)
1922 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
1932 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
1945 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French political activis
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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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