September 22nd, 1988

September 22nd, 1988...

Today is Thursday !

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: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

(TIME Cover: September the 19th, 1988)

Famous people born on the 22nd of September:

1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
1829 - Tu Duc, Emperor of Vietnam
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 - James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian teno
1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
1976 - Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer

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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