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March 15th, 1977...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Love Theme From 'A Star is Born' (Evergreen)"
by Barbra Streisand

In the UK:
"Chanson D'Amour"
by Manhattan Transfer
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Marabel Morgan

(TIME Cover: March the 14th, 1977)

 Famous people born on the 15th of March:

1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
1914 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
1940 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1941 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1943 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
1948 - Kate Bornstein (born Albert Bornstein), American transgender author and gender theorist

 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



Rod Stewart / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 230, January 13, 1977

 

 
 
 
     

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