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March 21st, 1989...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 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: Mapping Human Genes

(TIME Cover: March the 20th, 1989)

 Famous people born on the 21st of March:

1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
1713 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
1768 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1946 - Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor
1958 - Gary Oldman, English actor
1967 - Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy)

 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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