Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'll Take You There" by The Staple Singers
In the UK:
"Metal Guru" by T.Rex
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Moscow Summit
(TIME Cover: June the 5th, 1972)
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Famous people born on the 7th of June: |
1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1886 - Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
1917 - Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)
1928 - James Ivory, American film director
1950 - Gary Graham, American Actor
1953 - Johnny Clegg, South African musician
1958 - Prince, American musician
1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
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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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