Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"9 to 5" by Dolly Parton
In the UK:
"Jealous Guy" by Roxy Music
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Herbert Boyer
(TIME Cover: March the 9th, 1981)
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Famous people born on the 14th of March: |
1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)
1844 - King Umberto I of Italy (d. 1900)
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1933 - Quincy Jones, American music producer and composer
1958 - Albert II, Prince of Monaco
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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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