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 4th of June: |
460 BC - Hippocrates, Greek historian (d. 370, BC)
470 BC - Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. 399 BC)
1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820)
1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
1975 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
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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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