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July 1st, 1988...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Foolish Beat"
by Debbie Gibson

In the UK:
"I Owe You Nothing"
by Bros
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Mike Tyson

(TIME Cover: June the 27th, 1988)

 Famous people born on the 1st of July:

1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician, (Blondie)
1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model and actress

 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



Neil Young / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 527, June 2, 1988

 

 
 
 
     

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