Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Physical" by Olivia Newton-John
In the UK:
"Don't You Want Me" by The Human League
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Famous people born on the 7th of January: |
1 BC (O.S.) - Jesus of Nazareth, central figure of Christianity, date celebrated by Eastern Orthodox churches as Christmas (d. circa 30) (Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on December 25 according to the Julian Calendar, which for now coincides with January 7 on the Gregorian Calendar, but this will eventually shift.)
1502 - Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
1938 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor, director, and producer
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 |
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Gabriel García Márquez
1928-
for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts
Colombia
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1982 (USA) |
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$0.84 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1982 |
Gandhi
directed by Richard Attenborough
with Ben Kingsley (Mahatma Gandhi)
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Designed in 1982 |
The Chairs, model no. 810A
by Richard Meier |
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