October 24th, 1975

October 24th, 1975...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	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

TIME Magazine: Mayor Jacob Beame

(TIME Cover: October the 20th, 1975)

Famous people born on the 24th of October:

51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany, wife of Charles I of Spain
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1940 - Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
1980 - Monica, American singer

The Nobel Peace Prize 1975

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1921-1989

USSR
Soviet nuclear physicist

Photo: nobelprize.org

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1975 (USA)
	$0.77

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)

Designed in 1975

The VP Globe
by Verner Panton

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Patty Hearst (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 198, October 23, 1975

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