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: Yitzhak Rabin
(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1974)
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Famous people born on the 4th of December: |
1849 - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (d. 1877)
1866 (O.S.) - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born painter (d. 1944)
1892 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
1940 - John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground)
1944 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983)
1963 - Sergei Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
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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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