| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack
In the UK:
"Amazing Grace" by The Pipes & Drums & Military Band of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
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Famous people born on the 19th of May: |
1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, First President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)
1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator and mass murderer (d. 1998)
1945 - Pete Townshend, English guitarist and lyricist (The Who)
1948 - Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
1949 - Dusty Hill, American blues rock singer/bassist (ZZ Top)
1951 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
1963 - Yazz, British singer
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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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