February 26th, 1970

February 26th, 1970...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	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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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Anita Caspary and James Shannon

(TIME Cover: February the 23rd, 1970)

Famous people born on the 26th of February:

1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)
1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist

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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