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July 1st, 1970...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Love You Save"
by The Jackson 5

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

TIME Magazine: Edward Heath

(TIME Cover: June the 29th, 1970)

 Famous people born on the 1st of July:

1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician, (Blondie)
1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian 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



Charles Manson / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 61, June 25, 1970

 

 
 
 
     

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