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July 30th, 1973...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
by Jim Croce

In the UK:
"I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)"
by Gary Glitter
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Preisdent Nixon and Senator Sam Ervin

(TIME Cover: July the 30th, 1973)

 Famous people born on the 30th of July:

1470 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (d. 1505)
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1926 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, body builder, and Governor of California
1958 - Kate Bush, British musician
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress

 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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