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November 10th, 1977...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"You Light Up My Life"
by Debby Boone

In the UK:
"Name Of The Game"
by Abba
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Richard Leakey

(TIME Cover: November the 7th, 1977)

 Famous people born on the 10th of November:

1483 - Martin Luther, German protestant reformer (d. 1546)
1683 - George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
1888 - Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
1954 - Mario Cipollina, American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News)

 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



Johnny Rotten / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 250, October 20, 1977

 

 
 
 
     

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