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August 22nd, 1989...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Right Here Waiting"
by Richard Marx

In the UK:
"Swing The Mood"
by Jive Bunny
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: George Bush

(TIME Cover: August the 21st, 1989)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of August:

1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer (d. 1906)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer, humorist (d. 1967)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)

 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



Who, The / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 556/557, July 13, 1989

 

 
 
 
     

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