| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Black and White" by Three Dog Night
In the UK:
"Mama Weer All Crazee Now" by Slade
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Famous people born on the 18th of September: |
53 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (d. 117)
1733 - George Read, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
1765 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
1819 - Leon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
1905 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
1923 - Queen Anne of Romania
1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (d. 2002)
1952 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002)
1954 - Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut
1971 - Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
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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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