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In the USA:
"Shake You Down" by Gregory Abbott
In the UK:
"Reet Petite" by Jackie Wilson
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Adnan Khashoggi
(TIME Cover: January the 19th, 1987)
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Famous people born on the 21st of January: |
1829 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
1895 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1912 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1924 - Benny Hill, British actor, comic and singer (d. 1992)
1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor
1950 - Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1976 - Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987 |
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Susumu Tonegawa
1939-
for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity
Japan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Cambridge, MA, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1987 (USA) |
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$0.78 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1987 |
The Last Emperor
directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
with John Lone (Pu Yi), Joan Chen (Wan Jung) and Peter O'Toole (Reginald 'RJ' Johnson)
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Designed in 1987 |
The Bar stool
by Shiro Kuramata |
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