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October 16th, 1982...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Jack and Diane"
by John Cougar

In the UK:
"Pass The Dutchie"
by Musical Youth
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Carter Memoirs

(TIME Cover: October the 11th, 1982)

 Famous people born on the 16th of October:

1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1914 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1982 (USA)



$0.84
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1982

Gandhi
directed by Richard Attenborough
with Ben Kingsley (Mahatma Gandhi)

Designed in 1982

The Chairs, model no. 810A
by Richard Meier

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Robin Williams / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 378, September 16, 1982

 

 
 
 
     

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