Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" by Billy Joel
In the UK:
"Xanadu" by Olivia Newton-John & The Electric Light Orchestra
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: G.O.P. Convention
(TIME Cover: July the 21st, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of July: |
1478 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1519 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1893 - James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1944 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1947 - Don Henley, American drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles)
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark, Prince of Denmark
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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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