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July 1st, 1953...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart)"
by Percy Faith

In the UK:
"I'm Walking Behind You"
by Eddie Fisher featuring Sally Sweetland
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: James H. Kindelberger

(TIME Cover: June the 29th, 1953)

 Famous people born on the 1st of July:

1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician, (Blondie)
1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model and actress

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953


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


     
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)

Designed in 1953

The FJ 53 reading chair
by Finn Juhl

 
 
 
     

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