Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Brand New Key" by Melanie
In the UK:
"I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" by The New Seekers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: I.R.A. Fighter
(TIME Cover: January the 10th, 1972)
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Famous people born on the 14th of January: |
1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972 |
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Christian B. Anfinsen
1916-1995
for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation
USA
National Institutes of Health - Bethesda, MD, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1972 (USA) |
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$0.52 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1972 |
The Godfather
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
with Marlon Brando (Don Vito Corleone), James Caan (Sonny Corleone) and Al Pacino (Michael Corleone)
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Designed in 1972 |
The Marylin Sofa
by Studio 65 |
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