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:
"Mull Of Kintyre/Girls' School" by Wings
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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 12th of December: |
1298 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
1418 - Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (d. 1944)
1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
1934 - Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico
1976 - Dan Hawkins, British guitarist (The Darkness)
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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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