![]() ![]() Judy Garland, nominated for Best Actress in A Star Is Born, was in the hospital with her one-day-old son on the day of the show NBC-TV had television equipment set up outside her hospital room window just in case she won, but the award went to Grace Kelly. Japan's Gate of Hell received an Honorary Award as the year's best foreign language film. In December 1954, the first Burger King opened in Miami, Florida. ![]() On November 10, 1954, Vice President Richard Nixon dedicated the United States Marine Corps War Memorial, also known as the Iwo Jima War Memorial, at Arlington National Cemetery. In November 1954, Gojira, the first film to feature Godzilla, premiered in Tokyo, Japan. In September 1954, William Golding's first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in the U.K. ![]() On August 16, 1954, the first issue of Sports Illustrated was published. In July 1954, the Geneva Convention guaranteed independence to Vietnam and divided it in two, with the North going to Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces and the South to pro-French forces. On May 25, 1954, legendary war photographer Robert Capa died in Indochina after stepping on a land mine. On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in the case Brown v. Murrow and Fred Friendly produced a See It Now documentary called A Report on Senator Joseph R. On The Waterfront also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Marlon Brando), Best Supporting Actress (Eva Marie Saint), Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration, (Richard Day), Black-and-White Cinematography (Boris Kaufman), Directing (Elia Kazan), Film Editing (Gene Milford), and Writing – Story and Screenplay (Budd Schulberg). ![]()
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