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May 21st, 1970...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"American Woman / No Sugar Tonight"
by The Guess Who

In the UK:
"Back Home"
by England World Cup Squad
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: U.S. Student Protest

(TIME Cover: May the 18th, 1970)

 Famous people born on the 21st of May:

1471 - Albrecht Dürer, German painter (d. 1528)
1527 - King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
1860 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989)
1943 - Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals)
1945 - Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
1972 - The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d. 1997)

 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



Captain Beefheart / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 58, May 14, 1970

 

 
 
 
     

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