1954

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1954 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1954 MCMLIV
Ab urbe condita	2707
Armenian calendar	1403 ԹՎ ՌՆԳ
Assyrian calendar	6704
Baháʼí calendar	110–111
Balinese saka calendar	1875–1876
Bengali calendar	1361
Berber calendar	2904
British Regnal year	2 Eliz. 2 – 3 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2498
Burmese calendar	1316
Byzantine calendar	7462–7463
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4651 or 4444     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4652 or 4445
Coptic calendar	1670–1671
Discordian calendar	3120
Ethiopian calendar	1946–1947
Hebrew calendar	5714–5715
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2010–2011
- Shaka Samvat	1875–1876
- Kali Yuga	5054–5055
Holocene calendar	11954
Igbo calendar	954–955
Iranian calendar	1332–1333
Islamic calendar	1373–1374
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 29 (昭和２９年)
Javanese calendar	1885–1886
Juche calendar	43
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4287
Minguo calendar	ROC 43 民國43年
Nanakshahi calendar	486
Thai solar calendar	2497
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 2080 or 1699 or 927     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 2081 or 1700 or 928

1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• January 1 - Soviet Union no longer demands war reparations from East Germany
• January 12 - Large-scale avalanches in Austria - over 20 dead
• January 14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation
• January 14 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio.
• January 15 - Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya
• January 17 - In Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, Tito's second-in-command, is relieved of his duties
• January 20 - The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations
• January 21 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• January 25 - The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference.
• January 26 - Milpitas, California was incorporated as a city.
• January 27 - Very freezing weather in Europe

February

• February 3 - Queen Elizabeth II is the first reigning monarch to visit Australia
• February 10 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam
• February 23 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• February 25 - Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.

March

• March 1 - Nuclear testing: Officials announce that an American hydrogen bomb test had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
• March 1 - Four Puerto Ricans open fire on United States House of Representatives and wound five. Security guards apprehend them.
• March 8 - PR Newswire founded in New York by Herb Muschel.
• March 9 - Edward Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce a 30-minute See It Now special entitled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy".
• March 12 - Finland and Germany officially end the state of war.
• March 13 - French troops begin battle against Vietminh in Dien Bien Phu.
• March 19 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.
• March 22 - The London bullion market reopens (it was closed in 1939).
• March 22 - London gold exchange opens for the first time since the war.
• March 23 - Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu - French forces are partially isolated.
• March 25 - RCA manufactures first color TV set (12" screen; price: $1,000).
• March 25 - Soviet Union recognizes sovereignty of East Germany but Soviet troops remain in the country.
• March 29 - C-47 with Genevieve de Galard on board is incapacitated on Dien Bien Phu runway.
• March 30 - Canada's first subway opens in Toronto.

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May

• May 1 - Taku (city in Japan) founded
• May 6 - Roger Bannister runs the first four minute mile
• May 7 - Construction started on Michigan's Mackinac Bridge.
• May 7 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
• May 14 - Boeing 707 released after about two years of development.
• May 17 - United States Supreme Court hands down its decision in [[Brown v. Alemannisch (Alemannic) · Afrikaans · العربية (Arabic) · Asturianu (Asturian) · Bân-lâm-gú (Min Nan) · Беларуская (Belarusian) · Bosanski (Bosnian) · Brezhoneg (Breton) · Чăваш чěлхи (Chuvash) · Corsu (Corsican) · Cymraeg (Welsh) · Ελληνικά (Greek) · Euskara (Basque) · فارسی (Persian) · Føroyskt (Faroese) · Frysk (Western Frisian) · Gaeilge (Irish) · Gàidhlig (Scots Gaelic) · हिन्दी (Hindi) · Interlingua · Íslenska (Icelandic) · Basa Jawa (Javanese) · ქართული (Georgian) · ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) · Kurdî / كوردی (Kurdish) · Latina (Latin) · Latviešu (Latvian) · Lëtzebuergesch (Luxembourgish) · Limburgs (Limburgish) · Македонски (Macedonian) · मराठी (Marathi) · Bahasa Melayu (Malay) · Napulitana (Neapolitan) · Occitan · Ирон (Ossetic) · Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon) · Scots · Sicilianu (Sicilian) · Simple English · Shqip (Albanian) · Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (Serbo–Croatian) · தமிழ் (Tamil) · Tagalog · ภาษาไทย (Thai) · Tatarça (Tatar) · తెలుగు (Telugu) · Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) · Walon (Walloon)

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• May 17 - Petrov Royal Commission in Australia begains it's inqury
• May 20 - Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of China by the National Assembly.
• May 20 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty launches Belarusian language programming (see also Piotra Sych).
• May 29 - Robert Menzies Government re-elected for 4th term in Australia.

June

• June 1 - Radio statio Sender Freies Berlin begins broadcasting
• June 9 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army
• June 14 - On United States Flag Day, the words "under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance
• June 15 - UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland
• June 17 - Military coup in Guatemala
• June 18 - Pierre Mendes-France becomes prime minister of France
• June 19 - The last regular-service streetcar operated by Twin City Rapid Transit runs in Minneapolis.
• June 27 - Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup–Operation PBSUCCESS–triggering a bloody civil war that would continue for more than 35 years.
• June 27 - The world's first atomic power station opened at Obnisnsk, near Moscow.

July

• July 3 - Food rationing ends in Britain
• July 4 - End of rationing of meat ends all the food rationing in Britain
• July 4 - West Germany beat Hungary 3-2 to win the

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• July 5 - Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
• July 7 - In Memphis, Tennessee, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley record
• July 15 - Maiden flight of Boeing 707
• July 21 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam
• July 28 - Foundation of the Situationist International.
• July 31 - First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition.

August

• August - First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress.
• August 6 - Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets, dies of asphyxiation following a epileptic seizure at Sainte Agathe, Quebec.
• August 16 - Volume 1, Issue 1 of Sports Illustrated is published
• August 24 - President of Brazil, Getulio Vargas, commits suicide; he's been accused of conspiracy to murder an air force officer.

September

• September 3 - The last new episode of The Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years
• September 6 - SEATO treaty signed in Manila, Philippines
• September 8 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand
• September 9 - An earthquake centered on the city of Oleansville in Algeria - 1500 dead and thousands homeless
• September 11 - First Miss America Pageant broadcast on television
• September 14 - USSR tests nuclear weapon
• September 30 - USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), commissioned by the US Navy

October

• October 11 - Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam.
• October 18 - Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first Transistor radio.
• October 20 - Dock workers' strike expands in England
• October 23 - West Germany joins NATO
• October 26 - – Member of Muslim Brotherhood Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf tries to kill Gamal Abdal Nasser
• October 31 - Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.

November

• November - The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes.
• November 2 - Dock workers' strike in England ends
• November 3 - The first in the Godzilla series of films is released in Japan.
• November 10 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery
• November 13 - Don Estes invents the disrupter (a part to help combines work)
• November 14 - Egyptian president Mohammed Naguib is deposed - Gamal Abdel Nasser replaces him
• November 23 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its 1929 peak level reached just before that year's crash.
• November 30 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, a 4 kg meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and hits Ann Hodges, badly bruising her, in the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person.

December

• December 2 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 67 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
• December 24 - Laos becomes independent.

unknown dates

• The first organ transplants are done in Boston and Paris.
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu between French and Viet Minh forces in Indochina
• Boy Scouts of America desegregates on the basis of race
• Stop signs are changed from black-on-yellow to white-on-red
• Gerbils (Meriones Unguiculatus), brought to the United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker.
• Unification Church founded.
• Case of Lothar Malskat, who had admitted that he had painted the frescoes in Marienkirche himself, goes into trial

Births

January

• January 2 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
• January 4 - Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott, English professional poker player
• January 6 - Anthony Minghella, British film director
• January 12 - Howard Stern, American radio host
• January 17 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of Robert F Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy and nephew of U.S president John F Kennedy and Edward M Kennedy
• January 22 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
• January 23 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter
• January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, American actress, talk show host, producer, and publisher
• January 29 - Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese cartoonist

February

• February 1 - Bill Mumy, American actor and musician
• February 2 - Christie Brinkley, American model
• February 6 - Argusto Emfazie, American occultist and author
• February 12 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
• February 13 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (d. 1989)
• February 15 - Matt Groening, American cartoonist
• February 18 - John Travolta, American actor
• February 19 - Socrates, Brazilian footballer
• February 20 - Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
• February 20 - Patty Hearst, American heiress and kidnapping victim
• February 23 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
• February 25 - John Doe, American musician
• February 26 - Michael Bolton, American singer

March

• March 1 - Ron Howard, American actor, director, producer
• March 4 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
• March 8 - David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer
• March 13 - The Baroness Amos, British politician
• March 15 - Craig Wasson, American actor
• March 16 - Nancy Wilson, American singer, musician, and actress
• March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, British actress
• March 24 - Robert Carradine, American actor
• March 29 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)

April

• April 7 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong-born actor
• April 7 - Tony Dorsett, American football player
• April 9 - Dennis Quaid, American actor
• April 10 - Peter MacNicol, American actor
• April 15 - Seka, American actress
• April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver
• April 18 - Rick Moranis, Canadian actor and comedian
• April 28 - Robert Sargent Shriver III son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and nephew of John F Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy and Edward M Kennedy
• April 29 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian

May

• May 1 - Archie Norman, British politician and businessman
• May 7 - Amy Heckerling, American film director
• May 8 - David Keith, American actor
• May 19 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)

June

• June 9 - John Hagelin, American physicist and U.S. Presidential candidate
• June 20 - Ilan Ramon, Israeli Air Force, Israel first astronaut (d. 2003)
• June 22 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
• June 26 - Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
• June 27 - Ron Kirk, Mayor of Dallas, Texas
• June 30 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)

July

• July 5 - John Wright, New Zealand cricket captains
• July 10 - Neil Tennant, British musician
• July 17 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
• July 25 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)

August

• August 1 - Michael J. Badnarik, software engineer and U.S. Presidential candidate
• August 11 - Joe Jackson, British singer
• August 14 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player
• August 16 - James Cameron, Canadian-born film director
• August 20 - Al Roker, American television broadcaster
• August 21 - Ivan Stang, American author and publisher
• August 25 - Elvis Costello, British singer
• August 26 - Pauline Hanson, Australian politician

September

• September 13 - Steve Kilbey, Australian musician
• September 21 - Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician
• September 23 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
• September 26 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager and television host
• September 30 - Barry Williams, American actor

October

• October 1 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
• October 3 - Dennis Eckersley, baseball player
• October 3 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)
• October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor
• October 10 - David Lee Roth, American singer
• October 13 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
• October 15 - Peter Bakowski, Australian poet
• October 24 - Mike Rounds, Governor of South Dakota

November

• November 2 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
• November 3 - Brigitte Lin, Actress
• November 7 - Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
• November 8 - Michael D. Brown, U.S. Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response
• November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
• November 14 - Willie Hernández, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
• November 15 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland
• November 16 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (d. 2004)
• November 27 - Patricia McPherson, American actress

December

• December 2 - Dan Butler, American actor
• December 7 - Mark Hofmann, American forger and murderer
• December 14 - Ib Andersen, Danish dancer
• December 14 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d. 1993)
• December 20 - Michael Badalucco, American actor
• December 26 - Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racer
• December 28 - Denzel Washington, American actor

Unknown dates

• Nenad Prokic, Serbian playwright

Deaths

January

• January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)

February

• February 12 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)

March

• March 7 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• March 31 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1890)

May

• May 6 - B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (b. 1880)
• May 19 - Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)

April

• April 10 - Auguste Lumière, French inventor (b. 1862)
• April 28 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)

June

• June 7 - Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)

July

• July 11 - Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician and author (b. 1859)
• July 13 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
• July 14 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)

August

• August 24 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)

September

• September 21 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. 1858)

November

• November 3 - Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869)
• November 28 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• November 29 - Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
• November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)

December

• December 8 - Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer (b. 1894)
• December 30 - Eugen, Archduke of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Max Born, Walther Bothe
• Chemistry - Linus Carl Pauling
• Medicine - John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
• Literature - Ernest Hemingway
• Peace - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Fields Medalists

• Kunihiko Kodaira, Jean-Pierre Serre