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October 12th, 1985...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Oh Sheila"
by Ready For the World

In the UK:
"The Power Of Love"
by Jennifer Rush
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Trade Wars: Congress vs. Ronald Reagan

(TIME Cover: October the 7th, 1985)

 Famous people born on the 12th of October:

1008 - Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan (d. 1036)
1350 - Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389)
1537 - King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
1798 - Pedro I of Brazil (d. 1834)
1896 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor
1942 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1995)
1948 - Rick Parfitt, British musician (Status Quo)

 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



Sting / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 457, September 26, 1985

 

 
 
 
     

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