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February 28th, 1957...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Too Much"
by Elvis Presley

In the UK:
"Young Love"
by Tab Hunter
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Admiral Arthur Radford

(TIME Cover: February the 25th, 1957)

 Famous people born on the 28th of February:

1533 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer and philosopher (d. 1592)
1820 - John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892)
1903 - Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)
1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin
1942 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)

 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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