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September 16th, 1970...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"War"
by Edwin Starr

In the UK:
"Tears Of A Clown"
by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: John Fairchild

(TIME Cover: September the 14th, 1970)

 Famous people born on the 16th of September:

1387 - King Henry V of England (d. 1422)
1507 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
1782 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1927)
1924 - Lauren Bacall, American actress
1925 - B. B. King, American musician
1927 - Peter Falk, American actor
1941 - Richard Perle, American political advisor
1948 - Kenny Jones, English rock drummer (The Small Faces - The Who)
1956 - David Copperfield, American magician
1956 - Mickey Rourke, American actor

 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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