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December 10th, 1953...
Today is Thursday !
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Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Rags to Riches" by Tony Bennett
In the UK:
"Answer Me (tied for one week)" by Frankie Laine
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Nikita Khrushchev
(TIME Cover: November the 30th, 1953)
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Famous people born on the 10th of December: |
1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
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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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play crystal ball gazing with the-crystal-ball.com
or translate text into nightingale language on nightingale-song.com
or send singing birthday messages with the kakomessenger
or compose your ringtone for free with the kakophone machine |
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