Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Day
In the UK:
"So You Win Again" by Hot Chocolate
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Youth Crime
(TIME Cover: July the 11th, 1977)
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Famous people born on the 11th of July: |
1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329)
1366 - Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
1767 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
1844 - King Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1920 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born, American actor (d. 1985)
1934 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
1957 - Peter Murphy, British musician (Bauhaus)
1959 - Suzanne Vega, American singer
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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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