Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen
In the UK:
"Don't Stand So Close To Me" by The Police
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Jackpot States
(TIME Cover: October the 13th, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 16th of October: |
1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1914 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 |
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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
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1980 (USA) |
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$0.91 |
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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)
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Designed in 1980 |
The Occasional table
by John Makepeace |
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