August 17th, 1970

August 17th, 1970...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "(They Long to Be) Close to You" by Carpenters In the UK: "The Wonder Of You" by Elvis Presley

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Generation Gap

(TIME Cover: August the 17th, 1970)

Famous people born on the 17th of August:

1629 - King John III of Poland
1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1844 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1926 - Jiang Zemin, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China
1933 - Gene Kranz, NASA flight director
1939 - Luther Allison, American blues guitarist
1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian formula one driver
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1956 - Gail Berman, president of Paramount Pictures
1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses

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

Janis Joplin / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 64, August 6, 1970

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