Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear/Loving You" by Elvis Presley
In the UK:
"All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Norman Chandler
(TIME Cover: July the 15th, 1957)
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Famous people born on the 21st of July: |
356 BC - Alexander the Great
1414 - Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1948 - Cat Stevens, English singer
1951 - Robin Williams, American comedian
1961 - 'Big' Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More)
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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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