| Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Wanted" by Perry Como
In the UK:
"I See The Moon" by The Stargazers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: H-Bomb over Pacific
(TIME Cover: April the 12th, 1954)
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Famous people born on the 16th of April: |
778 - King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1319 - King John II of France (d. 1364)
1889 - Charles Chaplin, English actor, writer, and film producer (d. 1977)
1921 - Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
1940 - Margrethe II of Denmark, queen regnant
1953 - Peter Garrett, Australian musician (Midnight Oil)
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 |
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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
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Photo: nobelprize.org
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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)
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Designed in 1954 |
The Butterfly stool
by Sori Yanagi |
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