Number-one song in the charts today |
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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 |
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TIME Magazine: Gridlock
(TIME Cover: September the 12th, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 17th of September: |
879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1860 - Billy the Kid (d. 1881)
1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
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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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