Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Best of My Love" by The Emotions
In the UK:
"Angelo" by Brotherhood Of Man
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Arthur H. Sulzberger
(TIME Cover: August the 15th, 1977)
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Famous people born on the 20th of August: |
1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
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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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