Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
In the UK:
"Angel Fingers" by Wizzard
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Salvador Allende
(TIME Cover: September the 24th, 1973)
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Famous people born on the 26th of September: |
1870 - King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
1897 - Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
1945 - Bryan Ferry, British singer
1972 - Shawn Stockman, American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1981 - Serena Williams, American tennis player
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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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