| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Young Love" by Tab Hunter
In the UK:
"Young Love" by Tab Hunter
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Carrol M. Shanks
(TIME Cover: March the 18th, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of March: |
1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1234)
1459 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
1609 - King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
1797 - King Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)
1887 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
1923 - Marcel Marceau, French Mime
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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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