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 9th of July: |
1249 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305)
1578 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
1654 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1894 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco, (d. 1999)
1932 - Donald Rumsfeld, 12th & 20th United States Secretary of Defense
1943 - John Casper, astronaut
1956 - Tom Hanks, American actor
1964 - Courtney Love, American musician
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer (ofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic)
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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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