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July 22nd, 1973...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
by Jim Croce

In the UK:
"Welcome Home"
by Peters & Lee
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Marilyn Monroe and Norman Mailer

(TIME Cover: July the 16th, 1973)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of July:

1478 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1519 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1893 - James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1944 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1947 - Don Henley, American drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles)
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark, Prince of Denmark

 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



Paul Newman / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 138, July 5, 1973

 

 
 
 
     

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