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: Legalizing Drugs
(TIME Cover: May the 30th, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of June: |
926 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
1535 - Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
1743 - Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
1835 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
1940 - King Constantine II of Greece
1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1955 - Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, American rock drummer (The Strokes)
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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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