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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Famous people born on the 6th of February: |
1611 - Chongzhen, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1664 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d, 1703)
1665 - Queen Anne of England (d. 1714)
1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian actress
1922 - Patrick Macnee, British actor
1932 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1981)
1962 - Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
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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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