Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Love Rock 'N Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
In the UK:
"Ebony & Ivory" by Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Senator Howard Baker
(TIME Cover: April the 26th, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 26th of April: |
121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
1573 - Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
1648 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
1917 - I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1940 - Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
1960 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
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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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