| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Let It Be" by The Beatles
In the UK:
"All Kinds Of Everything" by Dana
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Gunter Grass
(TIME Cover: April the 13th, 1970)
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Famous people born on the 19th of April: |
1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1504)
1793 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
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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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