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August 20th, 1982...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Eye of the Tiger"
by Survivor

In the UK:
"Come On Eileen"
by Dexy's Midnight Runners
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Destroying Beirut

(TIME Cover: August the 16th, 1982)

 Famous people born on the 20th of August:

1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)

 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



ET / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 374, July 22, 1982

 

 
 
 
     

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