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 21st of June: |
1002 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
1921 - Jane Russell, American actress
1944 - Ray Davies, English musician (The Kinks)
1950 - Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
1953 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1955 - Michel Platini, French footballer
1958 - Gennady Padalka, cosmonaut
1982 - Prince William of Wales, British prince
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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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