Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I Think I Love You" by The Partridge Family
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 5th of December: |
1377 - Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
1443 - Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
1782 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1890 - Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (d. 1976)
1898 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982)
1901 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966)
1927 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
1932 - Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman), American singer and pianist
1979 - Matteo Ferrari, Italy footballer
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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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