• Indira Gandhi Expelled From Parliament
• Aldo Moro Killed
• Sandista Guerillas Seize Hostages
• Smallpox Eradicated
• First Birth Due to Invitro

Academy Awards

Best Picture: "The Deer Hunter"
Best Director: Michael Cimino ... "The Deer Hunter"
Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss ... Jon Voight ... "Coming Home"
Best Actress:Diane Keaton ... Jane Fonda ... "Coming Home"

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year:"Just the Way You Are" ... Billy Joel
Best Song: "Just the Way You Are" ... Billy Joel
Best Album: "Saturday Night Fever" ... Soundtrack Album
Male Vocalist: Barry Manilow ... "Copacabana (At the Copa)"
Female Vocalist: Barbra Streisand ... Anne Murray ... "You Needed Me"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry

MITCHELL, PETER D., Great Britain, Glynn Research Laboratories, Bodmin, b. 1920, d. 1992:

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

SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS, U.S.A., b. 1904 (in Radzymin, Poland), d. 1991:

"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish
cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"
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Peace

The prize was divided equally between:

AL-SADAT, MOHAMED ANWAR, Egypt, b. 1918, d. 1981: President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

BEGIN, MENACHEM , Israel, b. 1913, d. 1992: Prime Minister of Israel.

for jointly negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.
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Physiology or Medicine

The prize was awarded jointly to:

ARBER, WERNER, Switzerland, Biozentrum der UniversitSt, Basel, b. 1929;

NATHANS, DANIEL, U.S.A., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, b. 1928; and

SMITH, HAMILTON O., U.S.A., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, b. 1931:

"for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"
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Physics

The prize was divided, one half being awarded to:

KAPITSA, PYOTR LEONIDOVICH, USSR, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, b. 1894, d. 1984:

"for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature
physics";

and the other half divided equally between:

PENZIAS, ARNO A., U.S.A., Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, b. 1933 (in
Munich, Germany); and

WILSON, ROBERT W., U.S.A., Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, b. 1936:

"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"

Pulitzer Prizes

Fiction: James Alan McPherson ... "Elbow Room"
History: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ... "The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business""
National Reporting: Walter Mears ... "Associated Press"Henry Kamm ... "New York Times"

Public Service:Henry Kamm ... "New York Times"

Tony Awards

Best Play: "Da" ... Hugh Leonard
Best Musical: "Ain’t Misbehavin’"
Best Actor in a play: Barnard Hughes ... "Da"
Best Actress in a play: Jessica Tandy ... "The Gin Game"
Best Actor in a musical: John Cullum ... "On the Twentieth Century"
Best Actress in a musical: Liza Minnelli..."The Act"