October 3rd, 1957

October 3rd, 1957...

Today is Thursday !

Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Honeycomb" by Jimmie Rodgers In the UK: "Diana" by Paul Anka

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Edward Murrow

(TIME Cover: September the 30th, 1957)

Famous people born on the 3rd of October:

1790 - John Ross (Cherokee chief), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
1889 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
1898 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
1919 - James M. Buchanan, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 - Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt)

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957

Albert Camus
1913-1960

for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times

France

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai
directed by David Lean
with Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson) and Sessue Hayakawa (Saito)

Designed in 1957

The Wall clock, model 2237
by George Nelson

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