kakorama: a ride into the past
 

 

April 19th, 1987...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)"
by Aretha Franklin and George Michael

In the UK:
"Let It Be"
by Ferry Aid
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: U.S. and Japan Face Off

(TIME Cover: April the 13th, 1987)

 Famous people born on the 19th of April:

1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1504)
1793 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer

 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



Bangles / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 496, March 25, 1987

 

 
 
 
     

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