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August 27th, 1975...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Fallin' in Love"
by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

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

TIME Magazine: Kissinger, Rabin, Sadat

(TIME Cover: August the 25th, 1975)

 Famous people born on the 27th of August:

1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
1890 - Man Ray, photographer and artist (d. 1976)
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, Nobel Prize laureate
1959 - Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
1976 - Carlos Moya, Spanish 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

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



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

 

 
 
 
     

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