May 15th, 1986 - kakorama

May 15th, 1986...

Today is Thursday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys In the UK: "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Chernobyl Reactor

(TIME Cover: May the 12th, 1986)

Famous people born on the 15th of May:

1567 - (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
1898 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, 64th American Secretary of State
1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
1953 - Mike Oldfield, English composer
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)

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

Whoopi Goldberg / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 473, May 8, 1986

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