Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"One More Try" by George Michael
In the UK:
"With A Little Help From My Friends / She's Leaving Home" by Wet Wet Wet / Billy Bragg
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Immune System, The
(TIME Cover: May the 23rd, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 29th of May: |
1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685)
1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
1945 - Gary Brooker, Singer, pianist and songwriter (Procol Harum)
1956 - LaToya Jackson, American musician
1967 - Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
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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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