Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran
In the UK:
"Frankie" by Sister Sledge
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Famous people born on the 13th of July: |
1590 - Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
1608 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
1808 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (d. 1893)
1927 - Simone Veil, French politician
1934 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
1940 - Patrick Stewart, English actor (Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek)
1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor
1950 - George 'Pinky' Nelson, American astronaut
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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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