Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"You Send Me/Summertime, Pt. 1" by Sam Cooke
In the UK:
"Mary's Boy Child" by Harry Belafonte
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Senator John Kennedy
(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 13th of December: |
1521 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
1533 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
1553 - King Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
1678 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
1816 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
1906 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (d. 1968)
1936 - His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan (Prince Karim El Husseni)
1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, British-born guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 |
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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
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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)
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Designed in 1957 |
The Wall clock, model 2237
by George Nelson |
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