| 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 11th of October: |
1671 - Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
1821 - George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
1844 - Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
1885 - François Mauriac, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1919 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
1971 - Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals)
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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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