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: Richard Nixon
(TIME Cover: April the 20th, 1970)
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Famous people born on the 24th of April: |
1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer/actress
1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)
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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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