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May 3rd, 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: Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge

(TIME Cover: April the 29th, 1957)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of May:

612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
1886 - Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1933 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1961 - Joe Murray, Cartoonist

 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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