| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Love Bites" by Def Leppard
In the UK:
"Desire" by U2
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Famous people born on the 10th of October: |
1684 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
1903 - Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
1953 - David Lee Roth, American singer
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 |
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Naguib Mahfouz
1911-2006
who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind
Egypt
Photo: nobelprize.org
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| Average price of a dozen eggs in 1988 (USA) |
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$0.89 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1988 |
Rain Man
directed by Barry Levinson
with Dustin Hoffman (Raymond Babbitt)
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Designed in 1988 |
The Paris chair
by André Dubreuil |
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