Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"War" by Edwin Starr
In the UK:
"The Wonder Of You" by Elvis Presley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Elliott Gould
(TIME Cover: September the 7th, 1970)
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Famous people born on the 8th of September: |
828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
1841 - Antonín Dvorák, Czech composer (d. 1904
1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
1887 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (d. 1972)
1918 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (the Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
1947 - Benjamin Orr, American bass guitar player (The Cars) (d. 2000)
1979 - Pink, American singer
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 |
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature
USSR
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1970 (USA) |
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$0.62 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1970 |
Patton
directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
with George C. Scott (General George S. Patton, Jr.)
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Designed in 1970 |
The Egg lounge chair
by Huub Kortekaas |
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