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December 10th, 1987...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Heaven is a Place on Earth"
by Belinda Carlisle

In the UK:
"China In Your Hand"
by T'Pau
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Alcoholism

(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1987)

 Famous people born on the 10th of December:

1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)

 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



REM / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 514, December 3, 1987

 

 
 
 
     

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