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June 3rd, 1982...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Ebony and Ivory"
by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

In the UK:
"House Of Fun"
by Madness
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Falklands D-Day

(TIME Cover: May the 31st, 1982)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of June:

1540 - Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor
1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)

 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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