| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Woman in Love" by Barbra Streisand
In the UK:
"Woman In Love" by Barbra Streisand
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Famous people born on the 3rd of November: |
39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
1604 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
1852 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 - Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1959 - Hal Hartley, American film director and writer
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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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