October 19th, 1987

October 19th, 1987...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Lost in Emotion" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam In the UK: "You Win Again" by The Bee Gees

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Greenhouse Effect

(TIME Cover: October the 19th, 1987)

Famous people born on the 19th of October:

1276 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
1582 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (d. 1591)
1851 - Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d.1895)
1862 - Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
1885 - Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist (d. 1987)
1969 - Trey Parker, American cartoonist, comedian, writer, and actor

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

Michael Jackson (illustration) / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 509, September 24, 1987

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