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July 27th, 1976...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Kiss and Say Goodbye"
by The Manhattans

In the UK:
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
by Elton John & Kiki Dee
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Carter and Mondale

(TIME Cover: July the 26th, 1976)

 Famous people born on the 27th of July:

1667 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
1768 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1835 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1907)
1938 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator
1960 - Jay Maynard, Internet celebrity (Tron Guy)

 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



Beatles, The / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 217, July 15, 1976

 

 
 
 
     

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