kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

March 19th, 1972...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Heart of Gold"
by Neil Young

In the UK:
"Without You"
by Nilsson
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Uncle Sam

(TIME Cover: March the 13th, 1972)

 Famous people born on the 19th of March:

1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
1900 - Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)
1933 - Philip Roth, American author
1936 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
1943 - Mario Monti, Italian politician
1947 - Glenn Close, American actress
1955 - Bruce Willis, American actor

 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



Bob Dylan (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 104, March 15, 1972

 

 
 
 
     

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