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May 4th, 1975...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 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: Jimmy Connors

(TIME Cover: April the 28th, 1975)

 Famous people born on the 4th of May:

1008 - Khajeh Abdollah Ansari The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1654 - Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
1954 - Pia Zadora, American actres
1958 - Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d. 1990)

 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



Roger Daltry / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 184, April 10, 1975

 

 
 
 
     

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