Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor
In the UK:
"Fame" by Irene Cara
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Herpes
(TIME Cover: August the 2nd, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 6th of August: |
1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
1917 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
1928 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
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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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