kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

May 4th, 1976...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Let Your Love Flow"
by Bellamy Brothers

In the UK:
"Save Your Kisses For Me"
by Brotherhood Of Man
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Royal Families

(TIME Cover: May the 3rd, 1976)

 Famous people born on the 4th of May:

1008 - Khajeh Abdollah Ansari The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1654 - Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
1954 - Pia Zadora, American actres
1958 - Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d. 1990)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1976


Saul Bellow
1915-2005

for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work

USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1976 (USA)



$0.84
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1976

Rocky
directed by John G. Avildsen
with Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa), Burgess Meredith (Mickey) and Talia Shire (Adrian)

Designed in 1976

The Chair 'model 2004/2005'
by Alexander Begge

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Peter Frampton; inset SLA Hideout (Alison Weir) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 211, April 22, 1976

 

 
 
 
     

Jump to another date:

    

and click to see what happened:

play crystal ball gazing with the-crystal-ball.com
or translate text into nightingale language on nightingale-song.com
or send singing birthday messages with the kakomessenger
or compose your ringtone for free with the
kakophone machine
 

© Kakophone 2006
Terms of use - Legal information - Webmaster