Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Baby Come Back" by Player
In the UK:
"Mull Of Kintyre/Girls' School" by Wings
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Michael Blumenthal
(TIME Cover: January the 30th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of February: |
1455 - King John of Denmark (d. 1513)
1649 - Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)
1882 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
1947 - Farrah Fawcett, American actress
1977 - Shakira, Colombian singer
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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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