Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Call Me" by Blondie
In the UK:
"Working My Way Back To You" by The Detroit Spinners
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Capitalism
(TIME Cover: April the 21st, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 24th of April: |
1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer/actress
1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)
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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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