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November 21st, 1986...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Amanda"
by Boston

In the UK:
"Take My Breath Away"
by Berlin
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: High-Tech Wall Street

(TIME Cover: November the 10th, 1986)

 Famous people born on the 21st of November:

1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
1854 - Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
1898 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
1935 - Fairuz, Lebanese diva
1960 - Brian Ritchie, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1965 - Björk, Icelandic singer

 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



Huey Lewis / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 487, November 20, 1986

 

 
 
 
     

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