Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder
In the UK:
"I Don't Want To Talk About It / First Cut Is The Deepest" by Rod Stewart
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Menachem Begin
(TIME Cover: May the 30th, 1977)
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Famous people born on the 30th of May: |
1010 - Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
1672 (O.S.) - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725)
1814 - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
1896 - Howard Hawks, American film director (d. 1977)
1926 - Christine Jorgensen,(born George William Jorgensen, Jr.), American activist (d. 1989)
1934 - Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut
1955 - Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)
1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine)
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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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