Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Everyday People" by Sly & the Family Stone
In the UK:
"(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice" by Amen Corner
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Henry Kissinger
(TIME Cover: February the 14th, 1969)
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Famous people born on the 18th of February: |
1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver (d. 1988)
1903 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983)
1932 - Milos Forman, Czech film director
1933 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer
1947 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
1954 - John Travolta, American actor
1973 - Claude Makélélé, French footballer
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 |
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Samuel Beckett
1906-1989
for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation
Ireland
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1969 (USA) |
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$0.62 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1969 |
Midnight Cowboy
directed by John Schlesinger
with Dustin Hoffman (Ratso Rizzo), Jon Voight (Joe Buck) and Sylvia Miles (Cass)
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Designed in 1969 |
The Atomic floor lamp
by J.T. Kalmar |
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