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June 4th, 1978...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Too Much, Too Little, Too Late"
by Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams

In the UK:
"Rivers Of Babylon"
by Boney M
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Steve Cauthen

(TIME Cover: May the 29th, 1978)

 Famous people born on the 4th of June:

460 BC - Hippocrates, Greek historian (d. 370, BC)
470 BC - Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. 399 BC)
1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820)
1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
1975 - Angelina Jolie, American actress

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1978 (USA)



$0.82
     
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)

Designed in 1978

The Tea service
by Peter Shire

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Donna Summer / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 261, March 23, 1978

 

 
 
 
     

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