| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco
In the UK:
"Living Doll" by Cliff Richard & The Young Ones,featuring Hank Marvin
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Cheap Oil
(TIME Cover: April the 14th, 1986)
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Famous people born on the 15th of April: |
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic polymath (d. 1519)
1642 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)
1912 - Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
1939 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress
1966 - Samantha Fox, English singer
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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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