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July 5th, 1982...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Don't You Want Me"
by Human League

In the UK:
"Happy Talk"
by Captain Sensible
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: George Schultz

(TIME Cover: July the 5th, 1982)

 Famous people born on the 5th of July:

1717 - Pedro III of Portugal, consort of Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786)
1889 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963)
1901 - Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992)
1911 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
1950 - Huey Lewis, American musician
1979 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
1980 - Eva Green, actress

 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



Pete Townshend / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 372, June 24, 1982

 

 
 
 
     

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