| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits
In the UK:
"If I Was" by Midge Ure
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Famous people born on the 6th of October: |
1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
1950 - Thomas McClary, American guitarist (Commodores)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985 |
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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
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1985 (USA) |
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$0.80 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1985 |
Out of Africa
directed by Sydney Pollack
with Klaus Maria Brandauer (Bror) and Meryl Streep (Karen)
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Designed in 1985 |
The 'Whistling Bird' stainless steel teakettle, with sugar bowl and creamer"
by Michael Graves |
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