Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Kiss You All Over" by Exile
In the UK:
"Summer Nights" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Hispanic Americans
(TIME Cover: October the 16th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 17th of October: |
1817 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (d. 1898)
1912 - Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
1918 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
1920 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
1956 - Mae Jemison, astronaut
1972 - Eminem, American rapper
1979 - Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
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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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