June 22nd, 1954 - kakorama

June 22nd, 1954...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Little Things Mean a Lot" by Kitty Kallen In the UK: "Secret Love" by Doris Day

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Sam Snead

(TIME Cover: June the 21st, 1954)

Famous people born on the 22nd of June:

1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (d. 2001)
1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist, member of Buena Vista Social Club
1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
1949 - Lindsay Wagner, American actress (Jaime Sommers)
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1957 - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS
1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards and solo)

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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