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May 12th, 1973...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


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
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Georg Solti

(TIME Cover: May the 7th, 1973)

 Famous people born on the 12th of May:

1401 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (d. 1428)
1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1670 - Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
1845 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924)
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
1936 - Frank Stella, American painter

 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



Mark Spitz / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 133, April 26, 1973

 

 
 
 
     

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