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December 22nd, 1972...

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 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Me and Mrs. Jones"
by Billy Paul

In the UK:
"My Ding-A-Ling"
by Chuck Berry
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Liv Ullmann

(TIME Cover: December the 4th, 1972)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of December:

1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees)
1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French singer and actress
1974 - Heather Donahue, American actress, famous for her role in The Blair Witch Project

 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



Keith Moon / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 124, December 21, 1972

 

 
 
 
     

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