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November 2nd, 1986...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"True Colors"
by Cyndi Lauper

In the UK:
"Every Loser Wins"
by Nick Berry
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: David Byrne

(TIME Cover: October the 27th, 1986)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of November:

1082 - Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1709 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
1844 - Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
1877 - Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
1906 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
1913 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
1920 - Ann Rutherford, American actress
1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain
1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
1942 - Stefanie Powers, American actress
1966 - David Schwimmer, American actor

 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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