| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Bad Blood" by Neil Sedaka
In the UK:
"Hold Me Close" by David Essex
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mayor Jacob Beame
(TIME Cover: October the 20th, 1975)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of October: |
1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
1903 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
1913 - Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican musician
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1975 |
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1921-1989
USSR
Soviet nuclear physicist
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1975 (USA) |
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$0.77 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1975 |
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
directed by Milos Forman
with Jack Nicholson (Randle Patrick McMurphy), Brad Dourif (Billy Bibbit) andLouise Fletcher (Nurse Mildred Ratched)
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Designed in 1975 |
The VP Globe
by Verner Panton |
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