Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston
In the UK:
"The Chicken Song" by Spitting Image
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Baby Boomers
(TIME Cover: May the 19th, 1986)
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Famous people born on the 25th of May: |
1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 - Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1960 - Guy Fletcher, keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Miss Iceland, crowned Miss World in 2005
1993 - The Dilley sextuplets, first surviving set of sextuplets in the United States
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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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