| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone
In the UK:
"Name Of The Game" by Abba
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: High Schools
(TIME Cover: November the 14th, 1977)
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Famous people born on the 19th of November: |
1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1946)
1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
1961 - Meg Ryan, American actres
1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
1997 - McCaughey septuplets, World's first surviving set of septuplets
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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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