kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

November 25th, 1985...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"We Built This City"
by Starship

In the UK:
"A Good Heart"
by Feargal Sharkey
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Volcano Strikes Columbia

(TIME Cover: November the 25th, 1985)

 Famous people born on the 25th of November:

1844 - Karl Benz, German engineer (d. 1929)
1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator
1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
1926 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
1959 - Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion)
1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (d. 1999)

 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



Mark Knofler / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 461, November 21, 1985

 

 
 
 
     

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