Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Could've Been" by Tiffany
In the UK:
"I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Debi Thomas
(TIME Cover: February the 15th, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 18th of February: |
1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver (d. 1988)
1903 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983)
1932 - Milos Forman, Czech film director
1933 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer
1947 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
1954 - John Travolta, American actor
1973 - Claude Makélélé, French footballer
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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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