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August 20th, 1975...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Jive Talkin'"
by Bee Gees

In the UK:
"Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)"
by The Stylistics
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Charles O. Finley

(TIME Cover: August the 18th, 1975)

 Famous people born on the 20th of August:

1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)

 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



Neil Young (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 193, August 14, 1975

 

 
 
 
     

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