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March 21st, 1978...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Night Fever"
by Bee Gees

In the UK:
"Wuthering Heights"
by Kate Bush
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Coal Crisis

(TIME Cover: March the 20th, 1978)

 Famous people born on the 21st of March:

1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
1713 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
1768 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1946 - Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor
1958 - Gary Oldman, English actor
1967 - Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy)

 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978


Peter D. Mitchell
1920-1992

for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory

United Kingdom
Glynn Research Laboratories - Bodmin, United Kingdom



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1978 (USA)



$0.82
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1978

The Deer Hunter
directed by Michael Cimino
with Robert De Niro (Michael), Christopher Walken (Nick) and Meryl Streep (Linda)

Designed in 1978

The Tea service
by Peter Shire

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 259, February 23, 1978

 

 
 
 
     

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