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November 26th, 1978...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"MacArthur Park"
by Donna Summer

In the UK:
"Rat Trap"
by The Boomtown Rats
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Election Winners

(TIME Cover: November the 20th, 1978)

 Famous people born on the 26th of November:

1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 146
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
1847 - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1909 - Eugène Ionesco, French playwright (d. 1994)
1931 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1939 - Tina Turner, American singer and actress
1944 - Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
1951 - Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician

 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



Gilda Radner / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 277, November 2, 1978

 

 
 
 
     

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