August 9th, 1975 - kakorama

August 9th, 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 9th of August:

1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
1925 - David A. Huffman, Creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
1939 - Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
1957 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
1963 - Whitney Houston, American singer and actress
1968 - Gillian Anderson, American actress
1978 - Audrey Tautou, French actress

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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