Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" by John Parr
In the UK:
"Dancing In The Street" by David Bowie & Mick Jagger
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mikhail Gorbachev
(TIME Cover: September the 9th, 1985)
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Famous people born on the 9th of September: |
1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
1960 - Hugh Grant, British 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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