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September 11th, 1981...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Endless Love"
by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie

In the UK:
"Tainted Love"
by Soft Cell
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Meryl Streep

(TIME Cover: September the 7th, 1981)

 Famous people born on the 11th of September:

1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium
1937 - Robert Crippen, American astronaut
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
1965 - Moby, American musician
1966 - Princess Akishino, Wife of Prince Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)

 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



Bill Murray / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 350, August 20, 1981

 

 
 
 
     

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