Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Beat It" by Michael Jackson
In the UK:
"True" by Spandau Ballet
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Nastassia Kinski
(TIME Cover: May the 2nd, 1983)
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Famous people born on the 4th of May: |
1008 - Khajeh Abdollah Ansari The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1654 - Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
1954 - Pia Zadora, American actres
1958 - Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d. 1990)
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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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