Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler
In the UK:
"Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Marines in Lebanon
(TIME Cover: October the 3rd, 1983)
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Famous people born on the 7th of October: |
1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)
1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1952 - Vladimir Putin, 2nd President of Russia
1968 - Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1983 |
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Lech Walesa
1943-
Poland
Trade union leader (Solidaritet)
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1983 (USA) |
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$0.86 |
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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)
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Designed in 1983 |
The Silver tea and coffee service
by Michael Graves |
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