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July 20th, 1954...

Today is Tuesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Little Things Mean a Lot"
by Kitty Kallen

In the UK:
"Cara Mia"
by David Whitfield with Chorus & Mantovani & his Orchestra
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: William McP. Allen

(TIME Cover: July the 19th, 1954)

 Famous people born on the 20th of July:

1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
1822 - Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics (d. 1884)
1890 - King George II of Greece (d. 1947)
1925 - Jacques Delors, French President of the European Commission
1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
1956 - Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway

 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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