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January 10th, 1980...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Please Don't Go"
by KC and the Sunshine Band

In the UK:
"Another Brick In The Wall"
by Pink Floyd
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ayatullah Khomeini, Man of the Year

(TIME Cover: January the 7th, 1980)

 Famous people born on the 10th of January:

1480 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1865 - Mary Ingalls, elder sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1913 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
1945 - Rod Stewart, English singer
1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980


Paul Berg
1926-

for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA

USA
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1980 (USA)



$0.91
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1980

Ordinary People
directed by Robert Redford
with Judd Hirsch (Dr. Berger), Timothy Hutton (Conrad Jarrett) and Mary Tyler Moore (Beth Jarrett)

Designed in 1980

The Occasional table
by John Makepeace

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Eagles, The / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 306, November 29, 1979

 

 
 
 
     

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