| Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 |
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TIME Magazine: Donald Regan
(TIME Cover: January the 21st, 1985)
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Famous people born on the 1st of February: |
1894 - John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian auto manufacturer (d. 1988)
1901 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation
1965 - Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and actress
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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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