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: Carter and Inflation
(TIME Cover: March the 24th, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 27th of March: |
972 - King Robert I of France (d. 1031)
1785 - King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
1809 - Baron Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
1901 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor
1950 - Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
1959 - Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1969 - Keith Flint, member of British group The Prodigy
1970 - Mariah Carey, American singer
1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
1975 - Stacy 'Fergie' Ferguson, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
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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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