Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Will It Go Round in Circles" by Billy Preston
In the UK:
"Skweeze Me Pleeze Me" by Slade
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: John Dean
(TIME Cover: July the 2nd, 1973)
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Famous people born on the 8th of July: |
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (d. 1937)
1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1970 - Beck, American 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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