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: Women and Fitness
(TIME Cover: August the 30th, 1982)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of September: |
1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
1929 - Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
1946 - Billy Preston, American musician (d. 2006)
1952 - Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
1964 - Keanu Reeves, American actor
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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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