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November 1st, 1975...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Island Girl"
by Elton John

In the UK:
"I Only Have Eyes For You"
by Art Garfunkel
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Bruce Springsteen

(TIME Cover: October the 27th, 1975)

 Famous people born on the 1st of November:

846 - Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (d. 879)
1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
1946 - Ric Grech, English rock bassist (Family, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Traffic) (d. 1990)
1951 - Ronald Bell, American singer and saxophonist (Kool & the Gang)
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1967 - Tina Arena, Australian 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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