Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"MacArthur Park" by Donna Summer
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: Battered Dollar
(TIME Cover: November the 13th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 15th of November: |
1316 - John I of France (d. 1316)
1397 - Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
1793 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1889 - Manuel II of Portugal (d. 1932)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1932 - Petula Clark, English singer
1956 - Michael Hampton, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
1967 - François Ozon, French film director
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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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