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May 22nd, 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:
"Stand By Your Man"
by Tammy Wynette
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Mikhail Baryshnikov

(TIME Cover: May the 19th, 1975)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of May:

1813 - Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
1907 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (d. 1983)
1907 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (d. 1989)
1924 - Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor, and composer
1925 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
1959 - Morrissey, English singer
1970 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress

 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



Carly Simon / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 187, May 22, 1975

 

 
 
 
     

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