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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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: King Hussein
(TIME Cover: May the 6th, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 7th of May: |
1833 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
1892 - Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
1901 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry, Swedish musician
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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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