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April 24th, 1977...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Don't Leave Me This Way"
by Thelma Houston

In the UK:
"Knowing Me Knowing You"
by Abba
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: DNA

(TIME Cover: April the 18th, 1977)

 Famous people born on the 24th of April:

1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer/actress
1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)

 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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