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June 21, 1978

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Headlines from June 21, 1978

Old Clothing for Men

By Harriet Shapiro

More and more men are spending their Saturday mornings prowling through cluttered antique‐clothing shops looking for old clothes made, worn and discarded before they were born. As the interest in antique clothes grows, these new converts, old‐clothes conscious for the first time, are braving what has traditionally been a woman's world.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 21, 1978, covering June 21, 1978.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Saturday Night Fever by Soundtrack

    Saturday Night Fever

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    44
  2. 2
    Album cover for Feels So Good by Chuck Mangione

    Feels So Good

    Chuck Mangione

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    35
  3. 3
    Album cover for City To City by Gerry Rafferty

    City To City

    Gerry Rafferty

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    8
  4. 4
    Album cover for London Town by Wings

    London Town

    Wings

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    11
  5. 5
    Album cover for Fm by Soundtrack

    Fm

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    8

Notable Births

Thomas Blondeau

1978Thomas Blondeau, Flemish writer (died 2013)[†]

Thomas Blondeau was a Flemish writer, poet and journalist. He studied literature at the University of Leuven and the University of Leiden. He wrote for newspapers including Mare, Deng, De Revisor, De Standaard and Dif.

Matt Kuchar

1978Matt Kuchar, American golfer[†]

Matthew Gregory Kuchar is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and formerly the Nationwide Tour. He has won nine times on the PGA Tour. Kuchar briefly enjoyed success in the early 2000s before suffering a slump where he struggled to maintain his playing status on the PGA Tour. He rejuvenated himself and built a new, one-plane swing from 2008 onward leading to improved results. Kuchar was the PGA Tour's leading money winner in 2010.

1978Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer[†]

Cristiano Lupatelli is an Italian professional football coach and former player who is the goalkeeping coach of club Juventus U23. As a player, he was a goalkeeper; he is known for his trademark goatee and sideburns with his bald head.

1978Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin footballer[†]

Dejan Ognjanović is a Montenegrin former professional footballer who played as a defender. On the international level, he represented FR Yugoslavia most notably at the 2001 Kirin Cup as well as Montenegro from 2008 to 2010.

1978Rim'K, French rapper[†]

Abdelkrim Brahmi, known professionally as Rim'K, is a French rapper. Rim'K was raised in the Parisian suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. His family is originally from Barbacha, Algeria, which is mentioned many times in his lyrics.

Historical Events

Tim Rice

1978The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.[†]

Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice is an English songwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote, among other shows, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; Chess ; Aida ; and, for Disney, Aladdin, The Lion King, both the stage adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and the live-action film adaption. He also wrote lyrics for the Alan Menken musical King David, and for DreamWorks Animation's The Road to El Dorado.

Historical Context for June 21, 1978

In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]