| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Venus" by The Shocking Blue
In the UK:
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by Edison Lighthouse
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: American Indian, The
(TIME Cover: February the 9th, 1970)
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Famous people born on the 11th of February: |
1377 - King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414)
1535 - Pope Gregory XIV (d. 1591)
1902 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (d. 1971)
1909 - Joseph Mankiewicz, American director (d. 1993)
1920 - King Farouk I of Egypt (d. 1965)
1926 - Paul Bocuse, French chef
1962 - Sheryl Crow, American singer/songwriter, musician
1969 - Jennifer Aniston, American 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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