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June 9th, 1978...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 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: Politics of Africa

(TIME Cover: June the 5th, 1978)

 Famous people born on the 9th of June:

1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor

 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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