Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Torn Between Two Lovers" by Mary MacGregor
In the UK:
"Don't Give Up On Us" by David Soul
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Winter Weather
(TIME Cover: January the 31st, 1977)
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Famous people born on the 9th of February: |
1404 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
1773 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (d. 1841)
1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1945 - Mia Farrow, American actress
1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist
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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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