kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

July 16th, 1978...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Shadow Dancing"
by Andy Gibb

In the UK:
"You're The One That I Want"
by John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Bakke Decision

(TIME Cover: July the 10th, 1978)

 Famous people born on the 16th of July:

1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 153
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter
1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
1941 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)
1963 - Fatboy Slim, English musicia
1964 - Miguel Indurain, Spanish cyclist

 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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