Soviet poet Yevgeny A. Yevtushenko publishes his first novel, Berry Patches.

Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez publishes Crdnica de una muerte anunciada (translated as Chronicle of a Death Foretold ) and wins the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature.

La tia Julia y el escribidor (1977), by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, is translated into English by Helen R. Lane and published as Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

Andrzej Wajda's film about the French Revolution, Danton, starring Gerard Depardieu, is released.

Klaus Kinski stars in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.

Ben Kingsley plays the lead in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.

Beatrice Romand stars in Eric Rohmer's Le Beau Manage.

Placido Domingo stars in Franco Zeffirelli's movie version of La Traviata.

Italy defeats West Germany, 3-1, to win the World Cup in international soccer competition.

A national census reveals that the Chinese population is more than one billion.

Many U.S. oil companies and thousands of U...