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November 19th, 1989...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"When I See You Smile"
by Bad English

In the UK:
"All Around The World"
by Lisa Stansfield
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Arsenio Hall

(TIME Cover: November the 13th, 1989)

 Famous people born on the 19th of November:

1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1946)
1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
1961 - Meg Ryan, American actres
1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
1997 - McCaughey septuplets, World's first surviving set of septuplets

 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



100 Greatest Albums of the 80s / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 565, November 16, 1989

 

 
 
 
     

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