August 13th, 1983

August 13th, 1983...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Every Breath You Take" by The Police In the UK: "Give It Up" by KC & The Sunshine Band

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: William P. Clark

(TIME Cover: August the 8th, 1983)

Famous people born on the 13th of August:

1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
1313 - Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch
1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
1818 - Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893
1899 - Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
1952 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2004)
1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer

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

Cast of Return of the Jedi / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 400/401, July 21, 1983

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