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: Senator Robert Byrd
(TIME Cover: January the 23rd, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 28th of January: |
1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
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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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