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:
"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 5th of November: |
1271 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1615 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)
1854 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
1917 - Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000)
1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, guitarist (Radiohead)
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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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