Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Centerfold" by J. Geils Band
In the UK:
"A Town Called Malice/Precious" by The Jam
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Famous people born on the 26th of February: |
1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)
1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
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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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