Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" by Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond
In the UK:
"Mary's Boy Child-Oh My Lord" by Boney M
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Jonestown Deaths
(TIME Cover: December the 4th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 21st of December: |
1921 - Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Finnish-born actress
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1942 - Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress
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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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