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September 3rd, 1986...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Higher Love"
by Steve Winwood

In the UK:
"I Want To Wake Up With You"
by Boris Gardiner
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Ralph Lauren

(TIME Cover: September the 1st, 1986)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of September:

1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d. 1073)
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
1928 - Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission
1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys)
1953 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)

 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



Boy George / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 481, August 28, 1986

 

 
 
 
     

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