Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley
In the UK:
"I Should Be So Lucky" by Kylie Minogue
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Manuel Noriega
(TIME Cover: March the 7th, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 12th of March: |
1386 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (d. 1428)
1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, First President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1940 - Al Jarreau, American singer
1946 - Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
1956 - Steve Harris, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1960 - Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (Pizzicato Five)
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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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