December 23rd, 1970

December 23rd, 1970...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	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

TIME Magazine: Martha Mitchell

(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1970)

Famous people born on the 23rd of December:

245 - Zenobia, the queen of Palmyra
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1750 - King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
1790 - Jean François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
1951 - Anthony Phillips, British guitarist (Genesis)
1956 - Dave Murray, English guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1956 - Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001)
1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)

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

Leon Russell / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 72, December 10, 1970

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