May 28th, 1957 - kakorama

May 28th, 1957...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley In the UK: "Butterfly" by Andy Williams

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Senator John McClellan

(TIME Cover: May the 27th, 1957)

Famous people born on the 28th of May:

1140 - Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
1524 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
1944 - Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City
1955 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
1962 - Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
1962 - James Michael Tyler, actor-best known as Gunther on 'Friends'.
1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer

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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