Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Le Freak" by CHIC
In the UK:
"Y.M.C.A." by The Village People
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Leonid Brezhnev
(TIME Cover: January the 22nd, 1979)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of January: |
1440 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1934 - Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (INXS) (d. 1997)
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1979 |
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Mother Teresa
1910-1997
India
Leader of Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1979 (USA) |
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$0.85 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1979 |
Kramer vs. Kramer
directed by Robert Benton
with Dustin Hoffman (Ted Kramer), Justin Henry (Billy Kramer) and Meryl Streep (Joanna Kramer)
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Designed in 1979 |
The Armchair, Model No. PK15
by Poul Kjærholm |
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