Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" by Perry Como
In the UK:
"Comes A-Long A-Love" by Kay Starr
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Mamie Eisenhower
(TIME Cover: January the 19th, 1953)
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Famous people born on the 24th of January: |
76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1959 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 |
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1874-1965
for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values
United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1953 |
From Here to Eternity
directed by Fred Zinnemann
with Montgomery Clift (Robert E. Lee Prewitt), Burt Lancaster (Sgt. Milton Warden) and Frank Sinatra (Angelo Maggio)
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Designed in 1953 |
The FJ 53 reading chair
by Finn Juhl |
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