Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Knock on Wood" by Amii Stewart
In the UK:
"Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Three Mile Island
(TIME Cover: April the 9th, 1979)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of April: |
1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504)
1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space tourist
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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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