Number-one song in the charts today |
|
In the USA:
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver
In the UK:
"Whispering Grass" by Windsor Davies & Don Estelle
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
|
TIME Magazine: Old Age
(TIME Cover: June the 2nd, 1975)
|
Famous people born on the 8th of June: |
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
1983 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
|
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 |
|