Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen
In the UK:
"Atomic" by Blondie
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Peter Sellers
(TIME Cover: March the 3rd, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 4th of March: |
1188 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII (d. 1252)
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1792 - Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
1877 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
1914 - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1951 - Chris Rea, British singer
1952 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1962 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
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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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