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November 15th, 1988...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Wild, Wild West"
by The Escape Club

In the UK:
"Orinoco Flow"
by Enya
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Teacher Carol Bowen

(TIME Cover: November the 14th, 1988)

 Famous people born on the 15th of November:

1316 - John I of France (d. 1316)
1397 - Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
1793 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1889 - Manuel II of Portugal (d. 1932)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1932 - Petula Clark, English singer
1956 - Michael Hampton, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
1967 - François Ozon, French film director

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988


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


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1988 (USA)



$0.89
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1988

Rain Man
directed by Barry Levinson
with Dustin Hoffman (Raymond Babbitt)

Designed in 1988

The Paris chair
by André Dubreuil

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Johnny Carson & David Letterman / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 538, November 3, 1988

 

 
 
 
     

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