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February 10th, 1970...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Venus"
by The Shocking Blue

In the UK:
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"
by Edison Lighthouse
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: American Indian, The

(TIME Cover: February the 9th, 1970)

 Famous people born on the 10th of February:

1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor

 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



John Lennon & Yoko Ono / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 51, February 7, 1970

 

 
 
 
     

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