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 25th of May: |
1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 - Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1960 - Guy Fletcher, keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Miss Iceland, crowned Miss World in 2005
1993 - The Dilley sextuplets, first surviving set of sextuplets in the United States
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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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