Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"(I Just) Died in Your Arms" by Cutting Crew
In the UK:
"La Isla Bonita" by Madonna
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: U2, Rock Group
(TIME Cover: April the 27th, 1987)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of May: |
612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
1886 - Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1933 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1961 - Joe Murray, Cartoonist
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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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