Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson
In the UK:
"Don't Turn Around" by Aswad
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Famous people born on the 29th of March: |
1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician
1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)
1957 - Christopher Lambert, French actor
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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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