| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Jacob's Ladder" by Huey Lewis & the News
In the UK:
"Everything I Own" by Boy George
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Ronald Reagan
(TIME Cover: March the 9th, 1987)
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Famous people born on the 15th of March: |
1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
1914 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
1940 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1941 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1943 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
1948 - Kate Bornstein (born Albert Bornstein), American transgender author and gender theorist
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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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