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June 21st, 1972...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Candy Man"
by Sammy Davis, Jr.

In the UK:
"Vincent"
by Don McLean
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Occult Revival, The

(TIME Cover: June the 19th, 1972)

 Famous people born on the 21st of June:

1002 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
1921 - Jane Russell, American actress
1944 - Ray Davies, English musician (The Kinks)
1950 - Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith)
1953 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1955 - Michel Platini, French footballer
1958 - Gennady Padalka, cosmonaut
1982 - Prince William of Wales, British prince

 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



George McGovern (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 110, June 8, 1972

 

 
 
 
     

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