| Number-one song in the charts today |
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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: U.S. Automakers
(TIME Cover: September the 8th, 1980)
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Famous people born on the 8th of September: |
828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
1841 - Antonín Dvorák, Czech composer (d. 1904
1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
1887 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (d. 1972)
1918 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (the Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
1947 - Benjamin Orr, American bass guitar player (The Cars) (d. 2000)
1979 - Pink, American singer
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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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