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September 17th, 1987...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"La Bamba"
by Los Lobos

In the UK:
"Never Gonna Give You Up"
by Rick Astley
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: America for Sale

(TIME Cover: September the 14th, 1987)

 Famous people born on the 17th of September:

879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1860 - Billy the Kid (d. 1881)
1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer

 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



Motley Crue / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 506, August 13, 1987

 

 
 
 
     

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