| Number-one song in the charts today |
 |
In the USA:
"Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel
In the UK:
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel
|
TIME Magazine cover this week |
 |
TIME Magazine: Inefficient America
(TIME Cover: March the 23rd, 1970)
|
Famous people born on the 29th of March: |
1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician
1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)
1957 - Christopher Lambert, French actor
|
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 |
|