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March 24th, 1987...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Lean on Me"
by Club Nouveau

In the UK:
"Everything I Own"
by Boy George
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Nature of Universe, The

(TIME Cover: March the 23rd, 1987)

 Famous people born on the 24th of March:

1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1909 - Clyde Barrow, American crime figure (d. 1934)
1911 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist
1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
1960 - Nena, German singer
1970 - Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)

 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



Michael J. Fox / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 495, March 12, 1987

 

 
 
 
     

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