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May 14th, 1947...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Heartaches"
by Ted Weems

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Arthur Vandenberg

(TIME Cover: May the 12th, 1947)

 Famous people born on the 14th of May:

1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1710 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
1897 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
1944 - George Lucas, American film director
1952 - David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads)
1953 - Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
1959 - Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)

 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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