January 5th, 1981

January 5th, 1981...

Today is Monday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "(Just Like) Starting Over" by John Lennon In the UK: "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma" by St Winifred's School Choir

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Morning TV

(TIME Cover: December the 1st, 1980)

Famous people born on the 5th of January:

1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
1548 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1587 - Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
1855 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (d. 1967)
1931 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer
1940 - Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
1941 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress
1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer

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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