September 16th, 1988

September 16th, 1988...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses In the UK: "A Groovy Kind Of Love" by Phil Collins

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Gridlock

(TIME Cover: September the 12th, 1988)

Famous people born on the 16th of September:

1387 - King Henry V of England (d. 1422)
1507 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
1782 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1927)
1924 - Lauren Bacall, American actress
1925 - B. B. King, American musician
1927 - Peter Falk, American actor
1941 - Richard Perle, American political advisor
1948 - Kenny Jones, English rock drummer (The Small Faces - The Who)
1956 - David Copperfield, American magician
1956 - Mickey Rourke, American actor

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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