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November 28th, 1979...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"
by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer

In the UK:
"When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman"
by Dr Hook
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ayatullah Khomeini and Jimmy Carter

(TIME Cover: November the 26th, 1979)

 Famous people born on the 28th of November:

1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)
1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown
1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)
1962 - Matt Cameron, American drummer (Pearl Jam)

 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



Joni Mitchell / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 296, July 26, 1979

 

 
 
 
     

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