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May 27th, 1947...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Heartaches"
by Ted Weems

 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Chen Li-Fu

(TIME Cover: May the 26th, 1947)

 Famous people born on the 27th of May:

1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (d. 1406)
1626 - William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
1756 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1825)
1818 - Amelia Bloomer, suffragette (d. 1894)
1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
1897 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees )
2006 - Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

 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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