| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Wish" by Stevie Wonder
In the UK:
"Don't Give Up On Us" by David Soul
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Rupert Murdoch
(TIME Cover: January the 17th, 1977)
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Famous people born on the 28th of January: |
1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 |
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Ilya Prigogine
1917-2003
for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures
Belgium
Université Libre de Bruxelles - Brussels, Belgium; University of Texas - Austin, TX, US
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1977 (USA) |
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$0.82 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1977 |
Annie Hall
directed by Woody Allen
with Woody Allen (Alvy Singer) and Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
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Designed in 1977 |
The Valigia table lamp
by Ettore Sottsass, Jr. |
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