Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel
In the UK:
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Inefficient America
(TIME Cover: March the 23rd, 1970)
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Famous people born on the 28th of March: |
1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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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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