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November 20th, 1954...

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 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Need You Now"
by Eddie Fisher

In the UK:
"Hold My Hand"
by Don Cornell
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: George M. Leader

(TIME Cover: November the 15th, 1954)

 Famous people born on the 20th of November:

270 - Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1761 - Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
1851 - Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)
1889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
1912 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian royal
1948 - Barbara Hendricks, American-born singer
1956 - Bo Derek, American actress
1965 - Mike D, American musician (Beastie Boys)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954


Ernest Miller Hemingway
1899-1961

for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style

USA



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1954

On the Waterfront
directed by Elia Kazan
with Marlon Brando (Terry Malloy) and Eva Marie Saint (Edie Doyle)

Designed in 1954

The Butterfly stool
by Sori Yanagi

 
 
 
     

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