Number-one song in the charts today |
|
In the USA:
"Lady" by Kenny Rogers
In the UK:
"The Tide Is High" by Blondie
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
|
TIME Magazine: Saturn
(TIME Cover: November the 24th, 1980)
|
Famous people born on the 24th of November: |
1655 - Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
1941 - Donald 'Duck' Dunn, American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s
1954 - Emir Kusturica, serbian filmmake
1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
|
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 |
|