Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"Cumberland Gap" by Lonnie Donegan
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Famous people born on the 15th of April: |
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic polymath (d. 1519)
1642 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)
1912 - Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
1939 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress
1966 - Samantha Fox, English singer
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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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