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February 27th, 1982...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Centerfold"
by J. Geils Band

In the UK:
"A Town Called Malice/Precious"
by The Jam
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Jaclyn Smith and the Baby Boom

(TIME Cover: February the 22nd, 1982)

 Famous people born on the 27th of February:

272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
1711 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1982 (USA)



$0.84
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1982

Gandhi
directed by Richard Attenborough
with Ben Kingsley (Mahatma Gandhi)

Designed in 1982

The Chairs, model no. 810A
by Richard Meier

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Bill Murray / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 350, August 20, 1981

 

 
 
 
     

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