Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Everything She Wants" by Wham!
In the UK:
"19" by Paul Hardcastle
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Nuclear Threat
(TIME Cover: June the 3rd, 1985)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of June: |
1540 - Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor
1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
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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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