Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Get Down Tonight" by KC and the Sunshine Band
In the UK:
"Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" by The Stylistics
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Famous people born on the 31st of August: |
12 - Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)
161 - Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)
1569 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627)
1821 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (d. 1894)
1880 - Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
1928 - James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
1945 - Van Morrison, Irish musician
1948 - Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions)
1957 - Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's)
1970 - Rania, Queen of Jordan; wife of Abdullah II
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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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