Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Miss You" by The Rolling Stones
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: Lobbyists
(TIME Cover: August the 7th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 8th of August: |
1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1902 - Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1984)
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
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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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