| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Mony Mony" by Billy Idol
In the UK:
"China In Your Hand" by T'Pau
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Famous people born on the 24th of November: |
1655 - Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
1941 - Donald 'Duck' Dunn, American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s
1954 - Emir Kusturica, serbian filmmake
1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
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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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