Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" by Christopher Cross
In the UK:
"It's My Party" by Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Anwar Sadat
(TIME Cover: October the 19th, 1981)
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Famous people born on the 20th of October: |
1469 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (d. 1539)
1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczynski, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan
1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
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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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