Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Love a Rainy Night" by Eddie Rabbitt
In the UK:
"Shaddap You Face" by Joe Dolce Music Theatre
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: American Renewal
(TIME Cover: February the 23rd, 1981)
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Famous people born on the 6th of March: |
1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter (d. 1564)
1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan (d. 2000)
1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
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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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