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February 9th, 1975...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Fire"
by Ohio Players

In the UK:
"January"
by Pilot
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Chou En-Lai

(TIME Cover: February the 3rd, 1975)

 Famous people born on the 9th of February:

1404 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
1773 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (d. 1841)
1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1945 - Mia Farrow, American actress
1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist

 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



Freddie Prinze / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 179, January 30, 1975

 

 
 
 
     

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