| 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: Bakke Decision
(TIME Cover: July the 10th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 13th of July: |
1590 - Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
1608 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
1808 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (d. 1893)
1927 - Simone Veil, French politician
1934 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
1940 - Patrick Stewart, English actor (Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek)
1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor
1950 - George 'Pinky' Nelson, American astronaut
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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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