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February 27th, 1947...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons"
by The King Cole Trio

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: King George II

(TIME Cover: February the 24th, 1947)

 Famous people born on the 27th of February:

272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
1711 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947


André Paul Guillaume Gide
1869-1951

for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight

France



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1947

Gentleman's Agreement
directed by Elia Kazan
with Gregory Peck (Phil Green) and Dorothy McGuire (Kathy)

Designed in 1947

The Daybed
by Richard Stein

 
 
 
     

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