| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" by Pink Floyd
In the UK:
"Going Underground / Dreams Of Children" by The Jam
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: U.S. Diplomacy
(TIME Cover: March the 17th, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of March: |
1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1234)
1459 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
1609 - King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
1797 - King Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)
1887 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
1923 - Marcel Marceau, French Mime
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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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