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January 28th, 1981...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"(Just Like) Starting Over"
by John Lennon

In the UK:
"Imagine"
by John Lennon
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Hostage Breakthrough

(TIME Cover: January the 26th, 1981)

 Famous people born on the 28th of January:

1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1981 (USA)



$0.90 
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1981

Chariots of Fire
directed by Hugh Hudson
with Ian Holm (Sam Mussabini)

Designed in 1981

The Armchair Marini
by Alain Domingo and François Scali

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



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

 

 
 
 
     

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