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1982


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

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July 4, 1982

Birthdays:

 

bullet 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial please phone home.  I took my Grandmother.  This was the first movie she had been to in years, and she really liked it.  I will never forget her enjoyment. The movie was re-released in 2002
bullet Great Britain's Laker Airways, a pioneer of cheap transatlantic air fares, collapsed.
bullet Men at Work, an Australian band whose debut album, Business As Usual, hit the U.S. Charts in late 1982 and stayed there until mid 1983
Living in Aussy
bullet Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's assassin, gets 20 years to life (August 24).  In 2002 he will denied bail, and remain in prison.
bullet CANADIAN REACHES PEAK OF CLIMBING CAREER Nepal - Laurie Skreslet 1950- reaches the top of 8,848 m (29,002 ft) Mt. Everest; Calgary native the first Canadian to achieve this goal.
bullet Brisbane Australia - Canada wins 26 gold, 23 silver and 33 bronze medals, finishing 3rd at Commonwealth Games, Brisbane.(October 9)
bullet Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, who claim a dingo killed their baby, go on trial for murder in Australia.

 

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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Janet Frame (b. 1924), New Zealand novelist, poet. You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, "The Day of the Sheep" (1983).

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