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February 27th, 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
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Anita Caspary and James Shannon

(TIME Cover: February the 23rd, 1970)

 Famous people born on the 27th of February:

272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
1711 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)

 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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