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 3rd of December: |
1368 - King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)
1857 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924)
1884 - Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
1911 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
1934 - Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut
2005 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway
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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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