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September 15th, 1954...

Today is Wednesday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Sh-Boom"
by The Crew-Cuts

In the UK:
"Little Things Mean A Lot"
by Kitty Kallen
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Alicia Patterson

(TIME Cover: September the 13th, 1954)

 Famous people born on the 15th of September:

973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
1881 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
1890 - Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
1904 - King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
1928 - Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
1941 - Signe Toly Anderson, American Folk rock singer (ex-Jefferson Airplane)
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
1946 - Oliver Stone, American film director
1972 - Princess Letizia of Spain
1976 - Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)

 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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