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September 26th, 1957...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"That'll Be the Day"
by The Crickets

In the UK:
"Diana"
by Paul Anka
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Governor Orval Faubus

(TIME Cover: September the 23rd, 1957)

 Famous people born on the 26th of September:

1870 - King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
1897 - Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
1945 - Bryan Ferry, British singer
1972 - Shawn Stockman, American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1981 - Serena Williams, American 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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