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January 6th, 1977...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)"
by Rod Stewart

In the UK:
"When A Child Is Born"
by Johnny Mathis
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Gambling Goes Legit

(TIME Cover: December the 6th, 1976)

 Famous people born on the 6th of January:

1367 - Richard II of England (d. 1400)
1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
1807 - Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist (d. 2006)
1965 - Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1977 (USA)



$0.82
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1977

Annie Hall
directed by Woody Allen
with Woody Allen (Alvy Singer) and Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)

Designed in 1977

The Valigia table lamp
by Ettore Sottsass, Jr.

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Jackson Browne (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 228, December 16, 1976

 

 
 
 
     

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