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: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
(TIME Cover: September the 19th, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 19th of September: |
86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
866 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
1551 - King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
1909 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
1934 - Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (the Beatles) (d. 1967)
1955 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (d. 2006)
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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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