Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Wanted" by Perry Como
In the UK:
"Secret Love" by Doris Day
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Famous people born on the 29th of May: |
1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685)
1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
1945 - Gary Brooker, Singer, pianist and songwriter (Procol Harum)
1956 - LaToya Jackson, American musician
1967 - Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
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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
USA
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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