Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sister Golden Hair" by America
In the UK:
"Whispering Grass" by Windsor Davies & Don Estelle
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Margaux Hemingway
(TIME Cover: June the 16th, 1975)
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Famous people born on the 20th of June: |
1005 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)
1566 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1632)
1819 - Jacques Offenbach, German composer (d. 1880)
1899 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (d. 1943)
1909 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959)
1931 - Martin Landau, American actor
1949 - Lionel Richie, American musician and singer (The Commodores)
1960 - John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1975 |
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1921-1989
USSR
Soviet nuclear physicist
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1975 (USA) |
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$0.77 |
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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)
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Designed in 1975 |
The VP Globe
by Verner Panton |
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