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September 21st, 1987...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
by Michael Jackson with D2517Siedah Garrett

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

TIME Magazine: Robert Bork

(TIME Cover: September the 21st, 1987)

 Famous people born on the 21st of September:

1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor
1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., CIA director
1947 - Stephen King, American author
1947 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
1972 - Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)

 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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