| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"You Needed Me" by Anne Murray
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: Pat Benedict
(TIME Cover: November the 6th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 6th of November: |
1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
1661 - King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d.1894)
1860 - Ignace Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and President of Poland (d.1941)
1893 - Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)
1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
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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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