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October 7th, 1953...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Vaya con Dios (May God Be with You)"
by Les Paul and Mary Ford

In the UK:
"Look At That Girl"
by Guy Mitchell
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Neil H. McElroy

(TIME Cover: October the 5th, 1953)

 Famous people born on the 7th of October:

1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)
1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1952 - Vladimir Putin, 2nd President of Russia
1968 - Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953


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


     
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)

Designed in 1953

The FJ 53 reading chair
by Finn Juhl

 
 
 
     

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