Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Call Me" by Blondie
In the UK:
"Call Me" by Blondie
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Alliance, The
(TIME Cover: April the 28th, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of May: |
1360 - Yongle, Emperor of China (d. 1424)
1660 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1725)
1729 - Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (d.1796)
1935 - Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
1975 - David Beckham, English footballer
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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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