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 6th of March: |
1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter (d. 1564)
1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan (d. 2000)
1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
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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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