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July 18th, 1988...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Flame"
by Cheap Trick

In the UK:
"Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You"
by Glenn Medeiros
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Exploring Mars

(TIME Cover: July the 18th, 1988)

 Famous people born on the 18th of July:

1552 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat and President (d. 1989)
1917 - Henri Salvador, French singe
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureat
1921 - John Glenn, Mercury Seven astronaut and United States Senator from Ohio
1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers
1963 - Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama

 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



Van Halen / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 530/531, July 14, 1988

 

 
 
 
     

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