Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Baby Come Back" by Player
In the UK:
"Mull Of Kintyre/Girls' School" by Wings
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Super Bowl, The
(TIME Cover: January the 16th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 17th of January: |
1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
1911 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1927 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
1933 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
1956 - Paul Young, English musician
1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978 |
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Peter D. Mitchell
1920-1992
for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory
United Kingdom
Glynn Research Laboratories - Bodmin, United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1978 (USA) |
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$0.82 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1978 |
The Deer Hunter
directed by Michael Cimino
with Robert De Niro (Michael), Christopher Walken (Nick) and Meryl Streep (Linda)
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Designed in 1978 |
The Tea service
by Peter Shire |
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