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May 10th, 1957...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"All Shook Up"
by Elvis Presley

In the UK:
"Cumberland Gap"
by Lonnie Donegan
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: King Hussein

(TIME Cover: May the 6th, 1957)

 Famous people born on the 10th of May:

563 BC - Siddhartha Gautama, later Buddha (d. 483 BC)
1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)
1899 - Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1987)
1902 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
1957 - Sid Vicious, English bassist (The Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
1960 - Bono, Irish singer (U2)
1965 - Linda Evangelista, Canadian Supermodel
1974 - Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer

 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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