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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Famous people born on the 24th of March: |
1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1909 - Clyde Barrow, American crime figure (d. 1934)
1911 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist
1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
1960 - Nena, German singer
1970 - Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
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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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