What Happened The Year You Were Born?

March 3rd, 1974...

Today is Sunday !

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: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

(TIME Cover: February the 25th, 1974)

Famous people born on the 3rd of March:

1455 - King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)

1831 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)

1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d. 1922)

1911 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)

1948 - Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, 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