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November 30th, 1954...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"I Need You Now"
by Eddie Fisher

In the UK:
"This Ole House"
by Rosemary Clooney
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Bobby Layne

(TIME Cover: November the 29th, 1954)

 Famous people born on the 30th of November:

1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1810 - Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910)
1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1912 - Gordon Parks, American photographer, film director, composer and writer (d. 2006)
1936 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
1937 - Ridley Scott, British film director
1945 - Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
1955 - Billy Idol, British musician

 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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