Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb
In the UK:
"You're The One That I Want" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Women in Sports
(TIME Cover: June the 26th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 29th of June: |
1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian (disputed) (d. 1986)
1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple)
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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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