| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Love Letters In the Sand" by Pat Boone
In the UK:
"Yes Tonight Josephine" by Johnnie Ray
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Nuri as-Said
(TIME Cover: June the 17th, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 17th of June: |
1239 - King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
1818 - Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
1882 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
1942 - Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
1946 - Barry Manilow, American musician
1980 - Venus Williams, American tennis player
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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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