March 30th, 1988 - kakorama

March 30th, 1988...

Today is Wednesday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson In the UK: "Don't Turn Around" by Aswad

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Computers of the Future

(TIME Cover: March the 28th, 1988)

Famous people born on the 30th of March:

1135 - Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
1432 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
1844 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
1928 - Robert Badinter, French politician
1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
1945 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist/singer
1964 - Tracy Chapman, American singer
1968 - Céline Dion, Canadian singer
1979 - Norah Jones, American singer and pianist

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

Robert Plant / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 522, March 24, 1988

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