Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"(Just Like) Starting Over" by John Lennon
In the UK:
"Imagine" by John Lennon
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Economy, The
(TIME Cover: January the 19th, 1981)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of January: |
1440 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1934 - Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (INXS) (d. 1997)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981 |
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Roger W. Sperry
1913-1994
for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres
USA
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Pasadena, CA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1981 (USA) |
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$0.90 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1981 |
Chariots of Fire
directed by Hugh Hudson
with Ian Holm (Sam Mussabini)
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Designed in 1981 |
The Armchair Marini
by Alain Domingo and François Scali |
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