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:
"Use It Up And Wear It Out" by Odyssey
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Famous people born on the 28th of July: |
1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)
1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
1943 - Richard Wright English musician (Pink Floyd)
1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
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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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