November 24th, 1957

November 24th, 1957...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Jailhouse Rock/Treat Me Nice" by Elvis Presley In the UK: "Mary's Boy Child" by Harry Belafonte

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Edward Teller

(TIME Cover: November the 18th, 1957)

Famous people born on the 24th of November:

1655 - Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
1941 - Donald 'Duck' Dunn, American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s
1954 - Emir Kusturica, serbian filmmake
1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)

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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