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In the USA:
"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You/My Baby Left Me" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"Why Do Fools Fall In Love" by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Jawaharlal Nehru
(TIME Cover: July the 30th, 1956)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of August: |
1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)
1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
1903 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian Politician (d. 2000)
1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)
1935 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (d. 1997)
1946 - Jack Straw, British politician
1961 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats)
1963 - James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1956 |
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
1881-1958
for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity
Spain
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1956 |
Around the World in 80 Days
directed by Michael Anderson
with david Niven (Phileas Fogg) and Cantinflass (Passepartout)
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Designed in 1956 |
The Pedestral armchair with cushion
by Eero Saarinen |
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