Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)/Everybody Is a Star" by Sly & the Family Stone
In the UK:
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by Edison Lighthouse
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Famous people born on the 16th of February: |
1032 - Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067)
1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
1866 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, a Russian poet (d. 1949)
1959 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
1960 - Pete Willis, English guitarist (Def Leppard)
1961 - Andy Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
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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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