Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Laughter in the Rain" by Neil Sedaka
In the UK:
"January" by Pilot
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Chou En-Lai
(TIME Cover: February the 3rd, 1975)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of February: |
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
1947 - Paul Auster, American novelist
1959 - Laurence Tolhurst, British musician (The Cure)
1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician, composer and DJ (Pizzicato Five)
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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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