Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry
In the UK:
"Mouldy Old Dough" by Lieutenant Pigeon
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Henry Kissinger
(TIME Cover: October the 30th, 1972)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of November: |
39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
1604 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
1852 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 - Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1959 - Hal Hartley, American film director and writer
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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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