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October 31st, 1989...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Miss You Much"
by Janet Jackson

In the UK:
"That's What I Like"
by Jive Bunny
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: San Francisco Earthquake

(TIME Cover: October the 30th, 1989)

 Famous people born on the 31st of October:

1345 - King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)
1391 - King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
1424 - King Wladislaus III of Poland (d. 1444)
1632 - (baptism) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter (d. 1675)
1705 - Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
1860 - Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts (d. 1927)
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, former Republic of China president (d. 1975)
1922 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
1930 - Michael Collins, astronaut
1936 - Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
1952 - Bernard Edwards, American bass player (CHIC) (d. 1996)
1961 - Larry Mullen, Irish drummer (U2)
1966 - Adam Horovitz, American singer (Beastie Boys)

 The Nobel Peace Prize 1989


The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
1935-

Tibet



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1989 (USA)



$0.96
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1989

Driving Miss Daisy
directed by Bruce Beresford
with Morgan Freeman (Hoke Colburn), Dan Aykroyd (Boolie Werthan) and Jessica Tandy (Daisy Werthan)

Designed in 1989

The Occasional table
by Philippe Starck

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Mick Jagger & Keith Richards / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 560, September 7, 1989

 

 
 
 
     

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