| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Good Thing" by Fine Young Cannibals
In the UK:
"Back To Life (How Ever Do You Want Me)" by Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Pete Rose
(TIME Cover: July the 10th, 1989)
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Famous people born on the 10th of July: |
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian Serb inventor (d. 1943)
1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1989 |
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The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
1935-
Tibet
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1989 (USA) |
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$0.96 |
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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)
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Designed in 1989 |
The Occasional table
by Philippe Starck |
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