Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"The Doggie in the Window" by Patti Page
In the UK:
"Broken Wings" by The Stargazers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Ezra T. Benson
(TIME Cover: April the 13th, 1953)
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Famous people born on the 14th of April: |
1336 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (d. 1374)
1578 - King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1866 - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (d. 1936)
1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
1974 - Da Brat, American rapper
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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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