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July 18th, 1953...

Today is Saturday !

 
 
 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 Believe"
by Frankie Laine
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Walter Ulbricht

(TIME Cover: July the 13th, 1953)

 Famous people born on the 18th of July:

1552 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat and President (d. 1989)
1917 - Henri Salvador, French singe
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureat
1921 - John Glenn, Mercury Seven astronaut and United States Senator from Ohio
1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers
1963 - Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama

 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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