| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Magic" by Olivia Newton-John
In the UK:
"The Winner Takes It All" by Abba
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Famous people born on the 14th of August: |
1297 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)
1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
1688 - Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
1777 - Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
1926 - René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977)
1945 - Wim Wenders, German-born film director
1946 - Antonio Fargas, American actor
1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
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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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