| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor
In the UK:
"Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Ted Turner
(TIME Cover: August the 9th, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 9th of August: |
1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
1925 - David A. Huffman, Creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
1939 - Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
1957 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
1963 - Whitney Houston, American singer and actress
1968 - Gillian Anderson, American actress
1978 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
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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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