October 20th, 1986

October 20th, 1986...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "When I Think of You" by Janet Jackson In the UK: "Every Loser Wins" by Nick Berry

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

(TIME Cover: October the 20th, 1986)

Famous people born on the 20th of October:

1469 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (d. 1539)
1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczynski, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan
1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper

The Nobel Peace Prize 1986

Elie Wiesel
1928-

USA
Chairman of The President's Commission on the Holocaust

Photo: nobelprize.org

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1986 (USA)
	$0.87

Oscar of the best picture in 1986

Platoon
directed by Oliver Stone
with Tom Berenger (Sgt. Barnes) and Tom Berenger (Sgt. Barnes)

Designed in 1986

The Pat Conley II
by Philippe Starck

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Don Johnson / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 483, September 25, 1986

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