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December 21st, 1974...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Cat's in the Cradle"
by Harry Chapin

In the UK:
"Lonely This Christmas"
by Mud
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Yitzhak Rabin

(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1974)

 Famous people born on the 21st of December:

1921 - Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Finnish-born actress
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1942 - Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress

 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



George Harrison / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 176, December 19, 1974

 

 
 
 
     

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