| Number-one song in the charts today |
 |
In the USA:
"Shakedown" by Bob Seger
In the UK:
"La Bamba" by Los Lobos
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
 |
TIME Magazine: Mikhail Gorbachev
(TIME Cover: July the 27th, 1987)
|
Famous people born on the 7th of August: |
317 - Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)
1860 - Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
1949 - Walid Jumblatt, Leader of the Lebanese Druze
1958 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1960 - David Duchovny, American actor
|
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 |
|