Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Can Help" by Billy Swan
In the UK:
"Gonna Make You A Star" by David Essex
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Labor Inflation
(TIME Cover: November the 25th, 1974)
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Famous people born on the 25th of November: |
1844 - Karl Benz, German engineer (d. 1929)
1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator
1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
1926 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
1959 - Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion)
1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (d. 1999)
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1974 |
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Paul J. Flory
1910-1985
for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules
USA
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1974 (USA) |
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$0.78 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1974 |
The Godfather Part II
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
with Al Pacino (Michael Corleone), Robert De Niro (Vito Corleone) and Talia Shire (Connie Corleone)
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Designed in 1974 |
The Relaxer 2 rocking chair
by Verner Panton |
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