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October 7th, 1976...

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 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Play That Funky Music"
by Wild Cherry

In the UK:
"Dancing Queen"
by Abba
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Carter and Ford

(TIME Cover: October the 4th, 1976)

 Famous people born on the 7th of October:

1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)
1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1952 - Vladimir Putin, 2nd President of Russia
1968 - Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1976


Saul Bellow
1915-2005

for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work

USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1976 (USA)



$0.84
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1976

Rocky
directed by John G. Avildsen
with Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa), Burgess Meredith (Mickey) and Talia Shire (Adrian)

Designed in 1976

The Chair 'model 2004/2005'
by Alexander Begge

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Elton John / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 223, October 7, 1976

 

 
 
 
     

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