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August 4th, 1977...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Just Want to Be Your Everything"
by Andy Gibb

In the UK:
"I Feel Love"
by Donna Summer
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Sociobiology

(TIME Cover: August the 1st, 1977)

 Famous people born on the 4th of August:

1521 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
1755 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (d. 1805)
1834 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, 5th Prime Minister of Spain

 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



Ann & Nancy Wilson / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 244, July 28, 1977

 

 
 
 
     

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