August 9th, 1970 - kakorama

August 9th, 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: Aged in America

(TIME Cover: August the 3rd, 1970)

Famous people born on the 9th of August:

1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
1896 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
1925 - David A. Huffman, Creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
1939 - Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
1957 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
1963 - Whitney Houston, American singer and actress
1968 - Gillian Anderson, American actress
1978 - Audrey Tautou, French 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

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

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