Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Without You" by Nilsson
In the UK:
"Son Of My Father" by Chicory Tip
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Clifford Irving
(TIME Cover: February the 21st, 1972)
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Famous people born on the 25th of February: |
1398 - Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)
1643 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1919)
1873 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
1901 - Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
1943 - George Harrison, British musician (the Beatles) (d. 2001)
1953 - José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain
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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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