| Number-one song in the charts today |
 |
In the USA:
"Sussudio" by Phil Collins
In the UK:
"Frankie" by Sister Sledge
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
 |
TIME Magazine: Terrorism
(TIME Cover: July the 1st, 1985)
|
Famous people born on the 6th of July: |
1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
1921 - Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States
1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14h Dalai Lama
1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
1958 - Jennifer Saunders, British 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 |
|