| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Billy Don't Be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
In the UK:
"The Streak" by Ray Stevens
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Middle-Class Blacks
(TIME Cover: June the 17th, 1974)
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Famous people born on the 20th of June: |
1005 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)
1566 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1632)
1819 - Jacques Offenbach, German composer (d. 1880)
1899 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (d. 1943)
1909 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959)
1931 - Martin Landau, American actor
1949 - Lionel Richie, American musician and singer (The Commodores)
1960 - John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
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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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