Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Do That to Me One More Time" by Captain & Tennille
In the UK:
"Coward Of The County" by Kenny Rogers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Olympic Skaters
(TIME Cover: February the 11th, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 16th of February: |
1032 - Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067)
1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
1866 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, a Russian poet (d. 1949)
1959 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
1960 - Pete Willis, English guitarist (Def Leppard)
1961 - Andy Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
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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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