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July 27th, 1981...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The One That You Love"
by Air Supply

In the UK:
"Ghost Town"
by The Specials
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Caspar Weinberger

(TIME Cover: July the 27th, 1981)

 Famous people born on the 27th of July:

1667 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
1768 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1835 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1907)
1938 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator
1960 - Jay Maynard, Internet celebrity (Tron Guy)

 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



Tom Petty / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 348, July 23, 1981

 

 
 
 
     

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