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 3rd of September: |
1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d. 1073)
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
1928 - Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission
1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys)
1953 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)
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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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