Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Dirty Diana" by Michael Jackson
In the UK:
"I Owe You Nothing" by Bros
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mike Tyson
(TIME Cover: June the 27th, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 2nd of July: |
419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
1714 - Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1903 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1927 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
1930 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
1956 - Jerry Hall, American actress and model
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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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