| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Stuck With You" by Huey Lewis & the News
In the UK:
"Don't Leave Me This Way" by Communards
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Stephen King
(TIME Cover: October the 6th, 1986)
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Famous people born on the 6th of October: |
1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
1950 - Thomas McClary, American guitarist (Commodores)
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1986 |
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Elie Wiesel
1928-
USA
Chairman of The President's Commission on the Holocaust
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1986 (USA) |
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$0.87 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1986 |
Platoon
directed by Oliver Stone
with Tom Berenger (Sgt. Barnes) and Tom Berenger (Sgt. Barnes)
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Designed in 1986 |
The Pat Conley II
by Philippe Starck |
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