Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" by Whitney Houston
In the UK:
"Heart" by The Pet Shop Boys
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Famous people born on the 25th of April: |
32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1214 - King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
1228 - Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1940 - Al Pacino, American actor
1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
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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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