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January 8th, 1983...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Maneater"
by Daryl Hall and John Oates

In the UK:
"Save Your Love"
by Renee & Renato
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Paul Newman

(TIME Cover: December the 6th, 1982)

 Famous people born on the 8th of January:

1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
1947 - David Bowie, English musician

 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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