Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
In the UK:
"I Hear You Knockin'" by Dave Edmunds
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Martha Mitchell
(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1970)
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Famous people born on the 21st of December: |
1921 - Vampira (Maila Nurmi), Finnish-born actress
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1942 - Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 |
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature
USSR
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1970 (USA) |
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$0.62 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1970 |
Patton
directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
with George C. Scott (General George S. Patton, Jr.)
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Designed in 1970 |
The Egg lounge chair
by Huub Kortekaas |
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