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June 15th, 1985...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Everybody Wants to Rule The World"
by Tears for Fears

In the UK:
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
by The Crowd
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Nuclear Threat

(TIME Cover: June the 3rd, 1985)

 Famous people born on the 15th of June:

1330 - Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales (d. 1376)
1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1914 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1984
1943 - Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
1946 - Demis Roussos, Greek singer
1964 - Courteney Cox, American actress

 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



Phil Collins / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 448, May 23, 1985

 

 
 
 
     

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