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July 16th, 1970...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Mama Told Me (Not to Come)"
by Three Dog Night

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

TIME Magazine: Jerry Vernon Wilson

(TIME Cover: July the 13th, 1970)

 Famous people born on the 16th of July:

1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 153
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter
1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
1941 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)
1963 - Fatboy Slim, English musicia
1964 - Miguel Indurain, Spanish cyclist

 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



Van Morrison / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 62, July 9, 1970

 

 
 
 
     

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