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March 6th, 1974...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Seasons in the Sun"
by Terry Jacks

In the UK:
"Devil Gate Drive"
by Suzi Quatro
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Psychics, The

(TIME Cover: March the 4th, 1974)

 Famous people born on the 6th of March:

1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter (d. 1564)
1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan (d. 2000)
1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)

 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



Fear & Loathing at the Super Bowl / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 155, February 28, 1974

 

 
 
 
     

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