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November 14th, 1957...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Jailhouse Rock/Treat Me Nice"
by Elvis Presley

In the UK:
"That'll Be The Day"
by The Crickets
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Princess Lalla Aisha

(TIME Cover: November the 11th, 1957)

 Famous people born on the 14th of November:

1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702)
1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1933 - Fred Haise, American astronaut
1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State

 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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