| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"You're the One That I Want" by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
In the UK:
"Rivers Of Babylon" by Boney M
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Joseph Califano
(TIME Cover: June the 12th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 12th of June: |
1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)
1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
1908 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
1915 - David Rockefeller, American banker
1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
1952 - Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
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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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