| 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 13th of March: |
1615 - Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
1855 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, American author (d. 1986)
1913 - William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1987)
1914 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)
1949 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
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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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