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 29th of January: |
1584 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
1952 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
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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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