Monday July 11, 1988
US date format: 7/11/1988, UK date format: 11/7/1988This day in 30 sec.
It was Monday, under the sign of Cancer (see birth chart on July 11, 1988). The US president was Ronald Reagan (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Joan Smalls and Étienne Capoue.
In that special week of July people in US were listening to The Flame by Cheap Trick.
In UK Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You by Glenn Medeiros was in the top 5 hits.
Saturday Night Out, directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1988
while Tapestry by Belva Plain was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Brainstorm.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Caveman Ugh-Lympics or Dark Fusion.
But much more happened that day: find out below..
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Historical Events
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Holidays:
- Mongolia - Naadam Holiday
- Feast Day of Saint Benedict (founder of the Benedictine Order)
- United States: Free Slurpee at 7-Eleven (most locations do this - get a free 7.11oz Slurpee on 7-11).
- Bonfire night in Northern Ireland, precursor to The_Twelfth
- Feast Day of Saint Olga (first Russian Saint)
- United Nations - World Population Day
- Ireland - National Day of Commemoration held on nearest Sunday to this date (see Irish calendar).
- China - China National Maritime Day
- Flanders, region in Belgium (not a public holiday) - Flemish Day (1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs)
Famous Birthdays:
- Joan Smalls: Model.
- Étienne Capoue: French footballer.
- Roby Schinasi
- Yuka Iguchi: Japanese voice actress.
- Natalya Zhedik: Russian basketball player.
Facts:
- Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
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Magazine Covers
What news were making the headlines those days in July 1988?
- LIFE: Mike Tyson And Robin Givens
- Time: Magnifico' mural of Edward James Olmos painted by Joe L. Gonzalez on a gray concrete-block wall jus
- SportsIllustrated: Sports Illustrated: no.9125
- Beano: Your personalised Beano Book from 1988
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Music Charts
Which were the top hits in that special week of July 1988 ?
Top #10 songs in the USA
Top #10 R&B songs
- Roses Are Red - The Mac Band Featuring The McCampbell Brothers
- Sade - Paradise
- Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel
- Vanessa Williams - The Right Stuff
- New Edition - If It Isn't Love
- Terence Trent D'Arby - Sign Your Name
- Gregory Abbott - I'll Prove It To You
- Al B. Sure! - Off On Your Own (Girl)
- James Brown - I'm Real
- Troop - Mamacita
Top #10 Latin songs
- QUE TE PASA - Yuri
- TOCO MADERA - Raphael
- SUENO CONTIGO - Jose Luis Rodriguez
- Todo Por Ti - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
- QUERIENDO Y NO - Isabel Pantoja
- Es un alma en pena - Lucia Mendez
- Braulio - EL VICIO DE TU BOCA
- LA ULTIMA LUNA - Emmanuel
- Dyango - AHORA
- DESESPERADO - Luis Enrique
Top #5 songs in the UK
- Glenn Medeiros - Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You
- The Twist (Yo, Twist) - The Fat Boys With Chubby Checker
- Push It / Tramp - Salt-N-Pepa
- Bros - I Owe You Nothing
- Sabrina - Boys (Summertime Love)
Books
Which were the most popular books released in the last weeks ?
The Bonfire Of The Vanities
Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review)“A page-turner .
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Freaky Deaky
“Wonderfully wicked…a nonstop, pedal-to-the-metal romp.” —Chicago TribuneOver-the-hill former counter-culture SDS revolutionaries decide to turn bomb-making—and detonating—from a political statement to a profitable enterprise in the master Elmore Leonard’s electrifying and explosively
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To Be The Best
Enthralling sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's universally loved novels, A Woman of Substance and Hold The Dream. Set in Yorkshire, Hong Kong and America, this remarkable contemporary novel continues the
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