Number-one song in the charts today |
|
In the USA:
"(You're) Having My Baby" by Paul Anka and Odia Coates
In the UK:
"Love Me For A Reason" by The Osmonds
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
|
TIME Magazine: Economy, The
(TIME Cover: September the 9th, 1974)
|
Famous people born on the 10th of September: |
1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
1638 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
1898 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1914 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
1922 - Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer
1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)
1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
1950 - Joe Perry, American musician (Aerosmith)
1958 - Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister)
|
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 |
|