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April 3rd, 1983...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Billie Jean"
by Michael Jackson

In the UK:
"Is There Something I Should Know"
by Duran Duran
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Tax Fraud

(TIME Cover: March the 28th, 1983)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of April:

1245 - King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1367 - King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
1924 - Doris Day, American actress
1930 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian

 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



Dudley Moore / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 392, March 31, 1983

 

 
 
 
     

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