January 20th, 1985

January 20th, 1985...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Like a Virgin" by Madonna In the UK: "I Want To Know What Love Is" by Foreigner

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Nancy Reagan

(TIME Cover: January the 14th, 1985)

Famous people born on the 20th of January:

225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek industrialist (d. 1975)
1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
1930 - Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr., astronaut
1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1946 - David Lynch, American film director

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985

Klaus von Klitzing
1943-

for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect

Federal Republic of Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung - Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany

Photo: nobelprize.org

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1985 (USA)
	$0.80

Oscar of the best picture in 1985

Out of Africa
directed by Sydney Pollack
with Klaus Maria Brandauer (Bror) and Meryl Streep (Karen)

Designed in 1985

The 'Whistling Bird' stainless steel teakettle, with sugar bowl and creamer"
by Michael Graves

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Darryl Hall & John Oates / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 439, January 17, 1985

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