July 5th, 1954 - kakorama

July 5th, 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: "Cara Mia" by David Whitfield with Chorus & Mantovani & his Orchestra

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Senator John S. Cooper

(TIME Cover: July the 5th, 1954)

Famous people born on the 5th of July:

1717 - Pedro III of Portugal, consort of Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786)
1889 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963)
1901 - Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992)
1911 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
1950 - Huey Lewis, American musician
1979 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
1980 - Eva Green, actress

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

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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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