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December 24th, 1977...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"How Deep Is Your Love"
by Bee Gees

In the UK:
"Mull Of Kintyre/Girls' School"
by Wings
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Anwar Sadat

(TIME Cover: November the 28th, 1977)

 Famous people born on the 24th of December:

1166 - King John of England (d. 1216)
1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)
1818 - James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)
1837 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
1845 - King George I of Greece (d. 1913)
1886 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962)
1905 - Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
1922 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
1929 - Mary Higgins Clark, American author
1945 - Lemmy Kilmister, British singer, bassist (Motörhead)
1957 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer

 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



Tenth Anniversary / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 254, December 15, 1977

 

 
 
 
     

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