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June 25th, 1973...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"My Love"
by Paul McCartney and Wings

In the UK:
"Rubber Bullets"
by 10CC
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Leonid Brezhnev

(TIME Cover: June the 25th, 1973)

 Famous people born on the 25th of June:

1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1924 - Sidney Lumet, American actor
1928 - Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
1944 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
1963 - George Michael, British singer

 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



Rod Stewart / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 137, June 21, 1973

 

 
 
 
     

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