November 12th, 1975

November 12th, 1975...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Island Girl" by Elton John In the UK: "Space Oddity" by David Bowie

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Sarah Caldwell

(TIME Cover: November the 10th, 1975)

Famous people born on the 12th of November:

1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, first President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
1915 - Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
1929 - Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (d. 1982)
1936 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician
1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast

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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