Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Centerfold" by J. Geils Band
In the UK:
"The Model / Computer Love" by Kraftwerk
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Unemployment
(TIME Cover: February the 8th, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 12th of February: |
1074 - Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)
1218 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882)
1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
1933 - Costa-Gavras, Greek-born director and writer
1939 - Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors)
1942 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
1950 - Steve Hackett, British musician (Genesis)
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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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