| 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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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Earthquakes
(TIME Cover: September the 1st, 1975)
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Famous people born on the 5th of September: |
1187 - Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1638 - Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1847 - Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1929 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
1942 - Raquel Welch, American actress
1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991)
1973 - Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress
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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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