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June 3rd, 1954...

Today is Thursday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Wanted"
by Perry Como

In the UK:
"Secret Love"
by Doris Day
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Native Dancer

(TIME Cover: May the 31st, 1954)

 Famous people born on the 3rd of June:

1540 - Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
1843 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1877 - Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)
1922 - Alain Resnais, French director
1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor
1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)

 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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