Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
In the UK:
"When I Need You" by Leo Sayer
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Andrei Sakharov
(TIME Cover: February the 21st, 1977)
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Famous people born on the 23rd of February: |
1417 - Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
1743 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812
1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor
1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
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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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