October 8th, 1989

October 8th, 1989...

Today is Sunday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Miss You Much" by Janet Jackson In the UK: "Ride On Time" by Black Box

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Day in the Life of China, A

(TIME Cover: October the 2nd, 1989)

Famous people born on the 8th of October:

1895 - Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)
1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor
1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
1950 - Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)
1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)
1970 - Matt Damon, American actor

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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