Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash
In the UK:
"Clair" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Richard Bach
(TIME Cover: November the 13th, 1972)
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Famous people born on the 14th of November: |
1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702)
1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1933 - Fred Haise, American astronaut
1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
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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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