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June 13th, 1973...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"My Love"
by Paul McCartney and Wings

In the UK:
"See My Baby Jive"
by Wizzard
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Secretariat, Race Horse

(TIME Cover: June the 11th, 1973)

 Famous people born on the 13th of June:

823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877)
1773 - Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
1884 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
1888 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)
1911 - Erwin Müller, German-born physicist (d. 1977)
1935 - Christo, Bulgarian artist
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
1968 - David Gray, British singer and songwriter

 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



Jesus Freaks (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 136, June 7, 1973

 

 
 
 
     

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