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September 22nd, 1983...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Maniac"
by Michael Sembello

In the UK:
"Red Red Wine"
by UB40
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Reagan and U.N. Quiz Moscow

(TIME Cover: September the 19th, 1983)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of September:

1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
1829 - Tu Duc, Emperor of Vietnam
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 - James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian teno
1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
1976 - Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer

 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



Jackson Browne / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 404, September 15, 1983

 

 
 
 
     

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