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March 11th, 1989...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Lost in Your Eyes"
by Debbie Gibson

In the UK:
"Too Many Broken Hearts"
by Jason Donovan
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: John Tower

(TIME Cover: March the 6th, 1989)

 Famous people born on the 11th of March:

1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1899 - Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972), Danish King
1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher and entrepreneur
1955 - Nina Hagen, German singer

 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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