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July 26th, 1986...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sledgehammer"
by Peter Gabriel

In the UK:
"Papa Don't Preach"
by Madonna
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Fighting Pornography

(TIME Cover: July the 21st, 1986)

 Famous people born on the 26th of July:

1678 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
1922 - Blake Edwards, American film director
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor

 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



Tom Petty & Bob Dylan / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 478/479, July 18, 1986

 

 
 
 
     

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