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January 31st, 1987...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"At this Moment"
by Billy Vera and the Beaters

In the UK:
"Jack Your Body"
by Steve 'Silk' Hurley
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Adnan Khashoggi

(TIME Cover: January the 19th, 1987)

 Famous people born on the 31st of January:

1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1512 - King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580)
1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616)
1797 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
1937 - Philip Glass, American composer
1938 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
1961 - Lloyd Cole, British singer
1981 - Justin Timberlake, American singer

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1987 (USA)



$0.78 
     
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)

Designed in 1987

The Bar stool
by Shiro Kuramata

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Peter Gabriel / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 492, January 29, 1987

 

 
 
 
     

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