Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)" by Paul McCartney and Wings
In the UK:
"Crying" by Don McLean
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Famous people born on the 10th of July: |
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian Serb inventor (d. 1943)
1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
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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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