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:
"I Believe" by Frankie Laine
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Bill Bridgeman
(TIME Cover: April the 27th, 1953)
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Famous people born on the 30th of April: |
1662 - Queen Mary II of England
1721 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855)
1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1946 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
1956 - Lars von Trier, Danish film director
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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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