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October 18th, 1978...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Kiss You All Over"
by Exile

In the UK:
"Summer Nights"
by John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Hispanic Americans

(TIME Cover: October the 16th, 1978)

 Famous people born on the 18th of October:

1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
1634 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
1679 - Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)
1926 - Chuck Berry, American musician
1926 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1956 - Martina Navrátilová, Czech-born tennis player
1974 - Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1978 (USA)



$0.82
     
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)

Designed in 1978

The Tea service
by Peter Shire

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Who, The / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 275, October 5, 1978

 

 
 
 
     

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