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:
"Seven Tears" by The Goombay Dance Band
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Giorgio Armarni
(TIME Cover: April the 5th, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 8th of April: |
563 BC - Gautama Buddha, Indian religious leader (d. 483 BC)
1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1605 - King Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)
1868 - King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
1875 - King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)
1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978)
1938 - Kofi Annan, Ghanian United Nations Secretary General
1962 - Izzy Stradlin, American musician (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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