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September 29th, 1979...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"My Sharona"
by The Knack

In the UK:
"Message In A Bottle"
by The Police
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Luciano Pavarotti

(TIME Cover: September the 24th, 1979)

 Famous people born on the 29th of September:

106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1864 - Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
1932 - Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
1943 - Lech Walesa, President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile

 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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