June 8th, 1957 - kakorama

June 8th, 1957...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Love Letters In the Sand/Bernardine" by Pat Boone In the UK: "Yes Tonight Josephine" by Johnnie Ray

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Pedro Aramburu

(TIME Cover: June the 3rd, 1957)

Famous people born on the 8th of June:

1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
1983 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player

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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