Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Foolish Beat" by Debbie Gibson
In the UK:
"I Owe You Nothing" by Bros
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Gardening
(TIME Cover: June the 20th, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 26th of June: |
1819 - Abner Doubleday, Major General, United States Army and purported inventor of baseball (d. 1893)
1899 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1909 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
1925 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (d. 1970)
1955 - Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite)
1956 - Chris Isaak, American singer
1957 - Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)
1969 - Colin Greenwood, British musician (Radiohead)
2005 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
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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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