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May 24th, 1980...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Call Me"
by Blondie

In the UK:
"What's Another Year"
by Johnny Logan
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Star Wars Archvillain Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back

(TIME Cover: May the 19th, 1980)

 Famous people born on the 24th of May:

15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer (d. 1736)
1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
1941 - Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter
1945 - Priscilla Presley, American actress
1969 - Rich Robinson, American musician (Black Crowes)
1995 - Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein

 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

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Who Concert Tragedy, The / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 309, January 24, 1980

 

 
 
 
     

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