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March 16th, 1986...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sara"
by Starship

In the UK:
"Chain Reaction"
by Diana Ross
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Corazon Aquino and Salvador Laurel

(TIME Cover: March the 10th, 1986)

 Famous people born on the 16th of March:

1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the contraceptive pill (d. 2004).
1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
1932 - Walter Cunningham, astronaut
1953 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress

 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



Bruce Springsteen / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 468, February 27, 1986

 

 
 
 
     

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