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May 8th, 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: North Vietnamese Victory

(TIME Cover: May the 5th, 1975)

 Famous people born on the 8th of May:

1828 - Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross; Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1884 - Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)
1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
1914 - Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)
1917 - Papa John Creach, American musician (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1994)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, American musician
1951 - Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads)
1953 - Alex Van Halen, Dutch drumme
1964 - Melissa Gilbert, American actress (Laura Ingalls in The Little House in the Country)
1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer

 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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