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November 9th, 1972...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Can See Clearly Now"
by Johnny Nash

In the UK:
"Mouldy Old Dough"
by Lieutenant Pigeon
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Shape of Peace, The

(TIME Cover: November the 6th, 1972)

 Famous people born on the 9th of November:

1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1877 - Allama Iqbal, Indian National poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
1889 - Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
1951 - Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor (Incredible Hulk tv series)
1955 - Karen Dotrice, British actress, famous for Mary Poppins

 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



Jeff Beck / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 120, October 26, 1972

 

 
 
 
     

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