Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Everything is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens
In the UK:
"Yellow River" by Christie
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Arthur Burns
(TIME Cover: June the 1st, 1970)
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Famous people born on the 9th of June: |
1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
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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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