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February 26th, 1989...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Straight Up"
by Paula Abdul

In the UK:
"Belfast Child"
by Simple Minds
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Marine Spy Scandal

(TIME Cover: February the 20th, 1989)

 Famous people born on the 26th of February:

1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)
1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist

 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



Sam Kinison / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 546, February 23, 1989

 

 
 
 
     

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