Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Love Letters In the Sand/Bernardine" by Pat Boone
In the UK:
"Butterfly" by Andy Williams
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Pedro Aramburu
(TIME Cover: June the 3rd, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 3rd of June: |
1540 - Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor
1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
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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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