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 21st of January: |
1829 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
1895 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1912 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1924 - Benny Hill, British actor, comic and singer (d. 1992)
1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor
1950 - Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1976 - Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
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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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