| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Sailing" by Christopher Cross
In the UK:
"Ashes To Ashes" by David Bowie
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Nominee Carter
(TIME Cover: August the 25th, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 30th of August: |
1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
1937 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (d. 1970)
1962 - Alexander Litvinenko, British citizen, ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel (d.2006)
1972 - Cameron Diaz, American 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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