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June 22nd, 1970...

Today is Monday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Long and Winding Road / For You Blue"
by The Beatles

In the UK:
"In The Summertime"
by Mungo Jerry
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Middle East Turmoil

(TIME Cover: June the 22nd, 1970)

 Famous people born on the 22nd of June:

1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (d. 2001)
1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist, member of Buena Vista Social Club
1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
1949 - Lindsay Wagner, American actress (Jaime Sommers)
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1957 - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS
1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards and solo)

 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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