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: Archbishop Bernadin
(TIME Cover: November the 29th, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 29th of November: |
1427 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (d. 1464)
1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
1895 - Busby Berkeley, American film director, and choreographer (d. 1976)
1932 - Jacques Chirac, President of France
1953 - Alex Grey, American artist
1954 - Joel Coen, American film director, producer, and writer
1958 - Michael Dempsey, American musician (The Cure)
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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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