Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste of Honey
In the UK:
"Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Menachem Begin
(TIME Cover: September the 11th, 1978)
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Famous people born on the 14th of September: |
1486 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
1737 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
1898 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
1920 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
1959 - Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
1973 - Nas, American rapper
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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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