Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston
In the UK:
"When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" by Billy Ocean
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Pat Robertson
(TIME Cover: February the 17th, 1986)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of February: |
1040 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (d. 1105)
1403 - Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
1732 - George Washington, 1st President of the United States. (d. 1799)
1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941)
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
1949 - Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
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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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