August 13th, 1975

August 13th, 1975...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Jive Talkin'" by Bee Gees In the UK: "Barbados" by Typically Tropical

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ford and Brezhnev

(TIME Cover: August the 4th, 1975)

Famous people born on the 13th of August:

1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
1313 - Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch
1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
1818 - Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893
1899 - Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
1952 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2004)
1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer

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

Richard Dreyfuss / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 192, July 31, 1975

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