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PHOTOGRAPH - RINGO STARR - 1973

NEWS

• Roe vs. Wade became a landmark court case.

• President Nixon uttered the infamous words “I am not a crook” to a room full of news editors.  

• Former V.P. Spiro Agnew pleaded no contest to Tax Evasion.

• Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched

• Secretariat won the Triple Crown.

• A cease-fire was called in the Viet Nam War and a halt was officially called to the military draft.

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “The Sting” “American Graffiti” and “The Exorcist”

• T.V.: “All in the Family,” “Sanford and Son,” “M*A*S*H,” “The Waltons” & “Hawaii Five-O”

• Tennis great Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs in “The Battle of the Sexes”

• “Charlie” was the new perfume

 

DEAD

• Edward G. Robinson

• Bruce Lee

• Jim Croce

• J.R.R. Tolkien

 

#1@1

• This can be found on the Ringo Album

• In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers. 

• The Beatles no longer existed as a band, but the lad from Liverpool who sat behind the drums had his first #1 record ever, a song he co-wrote with George Harrison…

• Here’s Ringo Starr with Photograph your # 1 @ 1 from November 1973.



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