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March 2nd, 1988...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Father Figure"
by George Michael

In the UK:
"I Should Be So Lucky"
by Kylie Minogue
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Presidential Pack, The

(TIME Cover: February the 29th, 1988)

 Famous people born on the 2nd of March:

1316 - Robert II of Scotland, (d. 1390)
1459 - Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523)
1810 - Pope Leo XIII, (d. 1903)
1876 - Pope Pius XII, (d. 1958)
1900 - Kurt Weill, German composer (d. 1950)
1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union
1937 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
1942 - John Irving, American author
1942 - Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist
1956 - Mark Evans, Australian bassist (AC/DC)
1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, American singer, songwriter, and actor

 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



Robin Williams / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 520, February 25, 1988

 

 
 
 
     

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