| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"A Horse With No Name" by America
In the UK:
"Without You" by Nilsson
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Jack Anderson
(TIME Cover: April the 3rd, 1972)
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Famous people born on the 7th of April: |
1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef
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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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