Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Maneater" by Daryl Hall and John Oates
In the UK:
"Save Your Love" by Renee & Renato
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Paul Newman
(TIME Cover: December the 6th, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 18th of December: |
1507 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914)
1878 - Josef Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
1890 - Edwin Armstrong, American inventor (d. 1954)
1913 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
1934 - Boris Volynov, cosmonaut
1943 - Keith Richards, British guitarist (The Rolling Stones)
1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
1971 - Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player
1978 - Katie Holmes, American actress
1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer
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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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