January 5th, 1979

January 5th, 1979...

Today is Friday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Le Freak" by CHIC In the UK: "Mary's Boy Child-Oh My Lord" by Boney M

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jonestown Deaths

(TIME Cover: December the 4th, 1978)

Famous people born on the 5th of January:

1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
1548 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1587 - Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
1855 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (d. 1967)
1931 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer
1940 - Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
1941 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress
1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer

The Nobel Peace Prize 1979

Mother Teresa
1910-1997

India
Leader of Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta

Photo: nobelprize.org

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1979 (USA)
	$0.85

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)

Designed in 1979

The Armchair, Model No. PK15
by Poul Kjærholm

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Richard Dreyfuss (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 281/282, December 28, 1978

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