January 10th, 1970

January 10th, 1970...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" by B. J. Thomas In the UK: "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Lieutenant William Calley Jr.

(TIME Cover: December the 5th, 1969)

Famous people born on the 10th of January:

1480 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1865 - Mary Ingalls, elder sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1913 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
1945 - Rod Stewart, English singer
1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature

USSR

Photo: nobelprize.org

Average price of a dozen eggs in 1970 (USA)
	$0.62

Oscar of the best picture in 1970

Patton
directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
with George C. Scott (General George S. Patton, Jr.)

Designed in 1970

The Egg lounge chair
by Huub Kortekaas

Rolling Stone Magazine cover

Miles Davis / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 48, December 13, 1969

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