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September 23rd, 1980...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Upside Down"
by Diana Ross

In the UK:
"Feels Like I'm In Love"
by Kelly Marie
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Toxic Waste

(TIME Cover: September the 22nd, 1980)

 Famous people born on the 23rd of September:

480 BC - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor
1926 - John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
1930 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
1938 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)
1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
1961 - Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)

 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



Billy Joel (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 325, September 4, 1980

 

 
 
 
     

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