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 2nd of July: |
419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
1714 - Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1903 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1927 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
1930 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
1956 - Jerry Hall, American actress and model
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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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