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October 5th, 1972...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me"
by Mac Davis

In the UK:
"How Can I Be Sure"
by David Cassidy
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Nixon and McGovern

(TIME Cover: October the 2nd, 1972)

 Famous people born on the 5th of October:

1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
1864 - Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1929 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
1936 - Václav Havel, playwright and President of the Czech Republic
1942 - Richard Street, American r&b singer (The Temptations)
1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer & songwriter (The Boomtown Rats)

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1972 (USA)



$0.52
     
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)

Designed in 1972

The Marylin Sofa
by Studio 65

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Paul Simon / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 113, July 20, 1972

 

 
 
 
     

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