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December 19th, 1980...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Lady"
by Kenny Rogers

In the UK:
"Super Trouper"
by Abba
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Morning TV

(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1980)

 Famous people born on the 19th of December:

1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1683 - Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1915 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
1941 - Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1958 - Limahl, British singer (Kajagoogoo)
1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress

 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



Billy Joel (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 325, September 4, 1980

 

 
 
 
     

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