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July 3rd, 1974...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sundown"
by Gordon Lightfoot

In the UK:
"She"
by Charles Aznavour
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Nixon in Russia

(TIME Cover: July the 1st, 1974)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of July:

1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)
1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor

 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



James Dean / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 163, June 20, 1974

 

 
 
 
     

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