| Number-one song in the charts today |
 |
In the USA:
"Call Me" by Blondie
In the UK:
"Call Me" by Blondie
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
 |
TIME Magazine: Alliance, The
(TIME Cover: April the 28th, 1980)
|
Famous people born on the 29th of April: |
534 - Taliesin, the bard, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion
1854 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)
1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress
|
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 |
|
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
|
| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1980 (USA) |
|
$0.91 |
|
|
|
|
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)
|
Designed in 1980 |
The Occasional table
by John Makepeace |
|