July 30th, 1988 - kakorama

July 30th, 1988...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Roll With It" by Steve Winwood In the UK: "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" by Glenn Medeiros

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lloyd Bentsen and Michael Dukakis

(TIME Cover: July the 25th, 1988)

Famous people born on the 30th of July:

1470 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (d. 1505)
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1926 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, body builder, and Governor of California
1958 - Kate Bush, British musician
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American 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

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

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