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January 26th, 1983...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Down Under"
by Men at Work

In the UK:
"You Can't Hurry Love"
by Phil Collins
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Death Penalty, The

(TIME Cover: January the 24th, 1983)

 Famous people born on the 26th of January:

1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1908 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
1918 - Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
1925 - Paul Newman, American actor
1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)
1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born musicia

 The Nobel Peace Prize 1983


Lech Walesa
1943-

Poland
Trade union leader (Solidaritet)



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1983 (USA)



$0.86
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1983

Terms of Endearment
directed by James L. Brooks
with John Lithgow (Sam Burns), Jack Nicholson (Garrett Breedlove) and Shirley MacLaine (Aurora Greenway)

Designed in 1983

The Silver tea and coffee service
by Michael Graves

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Bette Midler / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 384, December 8, 1982

 

 
 
 
     

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