Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Brother Louie" by Stories
In the UK:
"Young Love" by Donny Osmond
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Famous people born on the 26th of August: |
1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
1845 - Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
1910 - Mother Teresa, Humanitarian Activist and Worker (d. 1997)
1944 - Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
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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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