Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Open Your Heart" by Madonna
In the UK:
"I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" by Aretha Franklin & George Michael
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Dennis Conner
(TIME Cover: February the 9th, 1987)
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Famous people born on the 10th of February: |
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor
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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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