| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" by Stevie Wonder
In the UK:
"See My Baby Jive" by Wizzard
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: John Mitchell
(TIME Cover: May the 21st, 1973)
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Famous people born on the 24th of May: |
15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer (d. 1736)
1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
1941 - Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter
1945 - Priscilla Presley, American actress
1969 - Rich Robinson, American musician (Black Crowes)
1995 - Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
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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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