| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Lady" by Kenny Rogers
In the UK:
"The Tide Is High" by Blondie
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Famous people born on the 22nd of November: |
1602 - Elisabeth of France, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
1869 - André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
1932 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
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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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