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In the USA:
"Upside Down" by Diana Ross
In the UK:
"Start" by The Jam
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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 6th of September: |
1666 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
1876 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1923 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1943 - Roger Waters, bassist, songwriter, and erstwhile leader of the Brit Rock Band Pink Floyd
1961 - Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian guitarist (a-ha)
1971 - Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
1974 - Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
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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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