Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Ebony and Ivory" by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
In the UK:
"I've Never Been To Me" by Charlene
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Spoils of War
(TIME Cover: June the 28th, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 29th of June: |
1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian (disputed) (d. 1986)
1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple)
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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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