Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Till I Waltz Again with You" by Teresa Brewer
In the UK:
"Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" by Perry Como
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Syngman Rhee
(TIME Cover: March the 9th, 1953)
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Famous people born on the 10th of March: |
1415 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
1503 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1564)
1845 - Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
1957 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
1958 - Sharon Stone, American actress
1963 - Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician
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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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