Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Truly" by Lionel Richie
In the UK:
"I Don't Wanna Dance" by Eddy Grant
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Yuri Andropov
(TIME Cover: November the 22nd, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 28th of November: |
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)
1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown
1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)
1962 - Matt Cameron, American drummer (Pearl Jam)
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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 |
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Gandhi
directed by Richard Attenborough
with Ben Kingsley (Mahatma Gandhi)
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Designed in 1982 |
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The Chairs, model no. 810A
by Richard Meier |
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