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March 28th, 1984...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Jump"
by Van Halen

In the UK:
"Hello"
by Lionel Richie
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Cholesterol

(TIME Cover: March the 26th, 1984)

 Famous people born on the 28th of March:

1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

 The Nobel Peace Prize 1984


Desmond Mpilo Tutu
1931-

South Africa
Bishop of Johannesburg; former Secretary General, South African Council of Churches (S.A.C.C.)



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1984 (USA)



$1.01 
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1984

Amadeus
directed by Milos Forman
with F. Murray Abraham (Antonio Salieri) and Tom Hulce (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Designed in 1984

The Ekstrem
by Terje Ekström

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Duran Duran / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 414, February 2, 1984

 

 
 
 
     

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