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November 28th, 1974...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Can Help"
by Billy Swan

In the UK:
"Gonna Make You A Star"
by David Essex
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Labor Inflation

(TIME Cover: November the 25th, 1974)

 Famous people born on the 28th of November:

1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)
1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown
1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)
1962 - Matt Cameron, American drummer (Pearl Jam)

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1974


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1974 (USA)



$0.78
     
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)

Designed in 1974

The Relaxer 2 rocking chair
by Verner Panton

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Evel Knievel / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 173, November 7, 1974

 

 
 
 
     

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