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May 15th, 1975...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)"
by Tony Orlando and Dawn

In the UK:
"Oh Boy"
by Mud
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ho Chi Minh

(TIME Cover: May the 12th, 1975)

 Famous people born on the 15th of May:

1567 - (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
1898 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, 64th American Secretary of State
1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
1953 - Mike Oldfield, English composer
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)

 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



John Denver / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 186, May 8, 1975

 

 
 
 
     

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