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May 6th, 1954...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Wanted"
by Perry Como

In the UK:
"Such A Night"
by Johnnie Ray
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Harry W. Morrison

(TIME Cover: May the 3rd, 1954)

 Famous people born on the 6th of May:

1501 - Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
1574 - Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary (d. 1794)
1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1868 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
1895 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)
1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1961 - George Clooney, American actor

 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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