| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Heaven is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle
In the UK:
"China In Your Hand" by T'Pau
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Alcoholism
(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1987)
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Famous people born on the 8th of December: |
65 BC - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)
1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
1765 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
1861 - Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944)
1864 - Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet Union-born cosmonaut
1936 - David Carradine, American actor
1943 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
1957 - Phil Collen, British guitarist (Def Leppard)
1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician
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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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