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 12th of March: |
1386 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (d. 1428)
1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, First President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1940 - Al Jarreau, American singer
1946 - Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
1956 - Steve Harris, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1960 - Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (Pizzicato Five)
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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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