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 25th of July: |
1109 - Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
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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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