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: Anwar Sadat
(TIME Cover: November the 28th, 1977)
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Famous people born on the 30th of November: |
1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1810 - Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910)
1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1912 - Gordon Parks, American photographer, film director, composer and writer (d. 2006)
1936 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
1937 - Ridley Scott, British film director
1945 - Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
1955 - Billy Idol, British musician
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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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