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May 22nd, 1970...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 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 22nd of May:

1813 - Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
1907 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (d. 1983)
1907 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (d. 1989)
1924 - Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor, and composer
1925 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
1959 - Morrissey, English singer
1970 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress

 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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