Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Monkey" by George Michael
In the UK:
"The Only Way Is Up" by Yazz & Plastic Population
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Begging in America
(TIME Cover: September the 5th, 1988)
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Famous people born on the 6th of September: |
1666 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
1876 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1923 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1943 - Roger Waters, bassist, songwriter, and erstwhile leader of the Brit Rock Band Pink Floyd
1961 - Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian guitarist (a-ha)
1971 - Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
1974 - Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
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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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