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September 1st, 1980...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sailing"
by Christopher Cross

In the UK:
"Ashes To Ashes"
by David Bowie
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Nominee Carter

(TIME Cover: August the 25th, 1980)

 Famous people born on the 1st of September:

1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d. 1797)
1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
1946 - Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)
1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1980 (USA)



$0.91
     
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)

Designed in 1980

The Occasional table
by John Makepeace

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Mick Jagger & Keith Richards (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 324, August 21, 1980

 

 
 
 
     

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