Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"My Love" by Paul McCartney and Wings
In the UK:
"Can The Can" by Suzi Quatro
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: U.S. Economy, The
(TIME Cover: June the 18th, 1973)
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Famous people born on the 18th of June: |
1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1757 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
1824 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)
1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
1918 - Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master
1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator
1937 - Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut
1942 - Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (The Beatles)
1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
1961 - Alison Moyet, English pop singer
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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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