July 6th, 1954 - kakorama

July 6th, 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 6th of July:

1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
1921 - Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States
1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14h Dalai Lama
1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
1958 - Jennifer Saunders, British 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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