
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1951 1952 1953 - 1954 - 1955 1956 1957 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ==Events== ===January-February=== *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 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 Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. * January 25 - The foreign ministers of the United States, United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference, 1954. * January 26 - Milpitas, California, California was incorporation as a city. * February 3 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is the first reigning monarch to visit Australia * February 10 - President of the United States 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-April=== * March 1 - Nuclear testing: Officials announce that an American hydrogen bomb test had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. * March 8 - PR Newswire founded in New York by Herb Muschel. * March 19 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first television prize boxing fight shown in color. * March 22 - The London gold market reopens (it was closed in 1939). * March 23 - Vietminh capture the main airstrip of Battle of Dien Bien Phu - French forces are partially isolated * March 29 - C-47 with Genevieve de Galard on board is incapacitated on Battle of Dien Bien Phu runway * March 30 - Canada's first subway opens in Toronto. * April 1 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado * April 3 Vladimir Petrov defects from the soviet union and asks to seek asylum in Australia * April 7 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference * April 14 – Aneurin Bevan resigns from the Labour Party (UK) shadow cabinet * April 22 - United States Senate Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism. ===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 France defeat (the battle began on March 13). * May 14 - Boeing 707 released after about two years of development. * May 17 - US Supreme Court hands down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347 US 483 1954 * May 17 - Petrov Royal Commission begains it's inqury * May 20 - Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of China by the National Assembly of the Republic of China. * May 20 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty launches Belarusian language programming (see also Piotra Sych). *May 29 - Menzies Government Re-elected for 4th Term ===June-July=== * June 9 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at United States Senate Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army * June 14- Flag day, the words "under God" added to the pledge of allegiance * June 15 - UEFA (the Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland. * 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 nuclear power opened at Obnisnsk, near Moscow. * July 3 - End of rationing of meat ends all the food rationing in Britain * July 7 - In Memphis, Tennessee, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley record * July 21 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference (1954) partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam * July 28 - Foundation of the Situationist International. * July 31 - First ascent of K2, by an Italy expedition. ===August-October=== * 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 3 - The last new episode of the ''Lone Ranger'' is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years * 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 - Soviet Union tests nuclear weapon * September 30 - USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), commissioned by the US Navy * October 11 - Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam. * October 18 - Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first Transistor radio. * 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 France rule. ===November-December=== * November - The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes. *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 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 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. ==Undated== *Battle of Dien Bien Phu between France and Viet Minh forces in French 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. ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 2 - Henry Bonilla, American politician * January 6 - Anthony Minghella, director * January 12 - Howard Stern, radio host * January 22 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician * January 23 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer/songwriter * January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, American actress, talk show host, producer, and publisher * January 29 - Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese mangaka * February 1 - Bill Mumy, actor, musician * February 2 - Christie Brinkley, model (person) * February 6 - Argusto Emfazie, occultist, author * February 12 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer * February 15 - Matt Groening, cartoonist * February 18 - John Travolta, actor * February 19 - Socrates (football player), Football (soccer) player * February 20 - Anthony Stewart Head, actor * February 20 - Patty Hearst, socialite * February 25 - John Doe (musician), musician * February 26 - Michael Bolton, singer ===March-July=== * March 1 - Ron Howard, actor, director, producer * March 4 - Catherine O'Hara, actress * March 13 - Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, British politician, first black woman in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom * March 16 - Nancy Wilson (guitarist), band founder, singer, actress * March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, actress * March 24 - Robert Carradine, actor * April 7 - Jackie Chan, actor **Tony Dorsett, American football player * April 9 - Dennis Quaid, actor * April 10 - Peter MacNicol, actor * April 15 - Seka, actress * April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver * April 18 - Rick Moranis, actor, comedian * April 29 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian * May 1 - Archie Norman, politician and business man * May 7 - Amy Heckerling, director * May 8 - David Keith, actor * June 9 - John Hagelin, physicist and U.S. Presidential candidates * June 22 - Freddie Prinze, actor and comedian (d. 1977) * June 26 - Steve Barton, actor * June 27 - Ron Kirk, mayor of Dallas, Texas * July 10 - Neil Tennant, British musician * July 25 - Walter Payton, American american football player (d. 1999) ===August-December=== * August 1 - Michael J. Badnarik, software engineer and U.S. Presidential candidates * August 11 - Joe Jackson (musician), British singer * August 14 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player * August 16 - James Cameron, film director * August 20 - Al Roker, television broadcaster * August 21 - Ivan Stang, author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. * August 25 - Elvis Costello, singer * August 26 - Pauline Hanson, politician * September 13 - Steve Kilbey, Australian musician * September 23 - Cherie Booth, wife of Tony Blair * September 26 - Kevin Kennedy (baseball), baseball manager and television host * September 30 - Barry Williams, actor * October 1 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer * October 3 - Dennis Eckersley, baseball player * October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor * October 13 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician imprisoned for revealing Israeli secrets * October 24 - Mike Rounds, List of Governors of South Dakota of South Dakota * November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State * November 14 - Willie Hernández, baseball pitcher * November 15 - Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland * November 16 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy, (d. 2004) * December 2 - Dan Butler, American actor * December 14 - Ib Andersen, dancer * December 14 - Alan Kulwicki, race car driver (d. 1993) * December 20 - Michael Badalucco, actor * December 26 - Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racing champion ===Unknown dates=== *Nenad Prokic - playwright ==Deaths== * January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879) * February 12 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896) * March 31 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, electrical engineer and inventor * May 6 - B.C. Forbes, financial publisher * May 19 - Charles Ives, American composer * April 10 - Auguste Lumière, one of the inventors of cinema (b. 1862) * June 7 - Alan Turing, mathematician * July 11 - Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author * July 13 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907) * July 14 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (b. 1866) * July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater * August 24 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil * September 21 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer * November 3 - Henri Matisse, painter * November 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist * November 29 - Dink Johnson, jazz musician (b. 1892) * November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor * December 8 - Claude Cahun, photographer and writer ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize in Physics - Max Born, - Walther Bothe * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Linus Carl Pauling * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins * Nobel Prize in Literature - Ernest Hemingway * Nobel Peace Prize - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. ==Fields Medal == *Kunihiko Kodaira, Jean-Pierre Serre ==Heads of state in 1954 == *President Juan Peron - Argentina *President Getúlio Vargas - Brazil *Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent - Canada *Mao Tse-Tung - People's Republic of China *Chiang Kai-shek - Republic of China *Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser - Egypt *Presidents Vincent Auriol and René Coty - France *Chancellor Konrad Adenauer - Germany *President Luigi Einaudi - Italy *Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru - Japan *General Francisco Franco - Spain *Prime Minister Winston Churchill - United Kingdom *President Dwight Eisenhower - United States 1954 bs:1954 la:1954 simple:1954 vi:1954
*:February 11 - :Catherine Hickland, actress - an alternative source gives :1956. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hickland,+Catherine lists :Catherine Hickland's birthday as 1956. What source listed it as '54? (My source can beat up your source?) --user:Koyaanis Qatsi == page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). User talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 14:26, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1951 1952 1953 - 1954 - 1955 1956 1957 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ==Events== ===January-February=== *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 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 Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. * January 25 - The foreign ministers of the United States, United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference, 1954. * January 26 - Milpitas, California, California was incorporation as a city. * February 3 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is the first reigning monarch to visit Australia * February 10 - President of the United States 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-April=== * March 1 - Nuclear testing: Officials announce that an American hydrogen bomb test had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. * March 8 - PR Newswire founded in New York by Herb Muschel. * March 19 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first television prize boxing fight shown in color. * March 22 - The London gold market reopens (it was closed in 1939). * March 23 - Vietminh capture the main airstrip of Battle of Dien Bien Phu - French forces are partially isolated * March 29 - C-47 with Genevieve de Galard on board is incapacitated on Battle of Dien Bien Phu runway * March 30 - Canada's first subway opens in Toronto. * April 1 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado * April 3 Vladimir Petrov defects from the soviet union and asks to seek asylum in Australia * April 7 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference * April 14 – Aneurin Bevan resigns from the Labour Party (UK) shadow cabinet * April 22 - United States Senate Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism. ===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 France defeat (the battle began on March 13). * May 14 - Boeing 707 released after about two years of development. * May 17 - US Supreme Court hands down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347 US 483 1954 * May 17 - Petrov Royal Commission begains it's inqury * May 20 - Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of China by the National Assembly of the Republic of China. * May 20 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty launches Belarusian language programming (see also Piotra Sych). *May 29 - Menzies Government Re-elected for 4th Term ===June-July=== * June 9 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at United States Senate Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army * June 14- Flag day, the words "under God" added to the pledge of allegiance * June 15 - UEFA (the Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland. * 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 nuclear power opened at Obnisnsk, near Moscow. * July 3 - End of rationing of meat ends all the food rationing in Britain * July 7 - In Memphis, Tennessee, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley record * July 21 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference (1954) partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam * July 28 - Foundation of the Situationist International. * July 31 - First ascent of K2, by an Italy expedition. ===August-October=== * 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 3 - The last new episode of the ''Lone Ranger'' is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years * 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 - Soviet Union tests nuclear weapon * September 30 - USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), commissioned by the US Navy * October 11 - Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam. * October 18 - Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first Transistor radio. * 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 France rule. ===November-December=== * November - The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes. *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 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 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. ==Undated== *Battle of Dien Bien Phu between France and Viet Minh forces in French 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. ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 2 - Henry Bonilla, American politician * January 6 - Anthony Minghella, director * January 12 - Howard Stern, radio host * January 22 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician * January 23 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer/songwriter * January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, American actress, talk show host, producer, and publisher * January 29 - Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese mangaka * February 1 - Bill Mumy, actor, musician * February 2 - Christie Brinkley, model (person) * February 6 - Argusto Emfazie, occultist, author * February 12 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer * February 15 - Matt Groening, cartoonist * February 18 - John Travolta, actor * February 19 - Socrates (football player), Football (soccer) player * February 20 - Anthony Stewart Head, actor * February 20 - Patty Hearst, socialite * February 25 - John Doe (musician), musician * February 26 - Michael Bolton, singer ===March-July=== * March 1 - Ron Howard, actor, director, producer * March 4 - Catherine O'Hara, actress * March 13 - Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, British politician, first black woman in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom * March 16 - Nancy Wilson (guitarist), band founder, singer, actress * March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, actress * March 24 - Robert Carradine, actor * April 7 - Jackie Chan, actor **Tony Dorsett, American football player * April 9 - Dennis Quaid, actor * April 10 - Peter MacNicol, actor * April 15 - Seka, actress * April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver * April 18 - Rick Moranis, actor, comedian * April 29 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian * May 1 - Archie Norman, politician and business man * May 7 - Amy Heckerling, director * May 8 - David Keith, actor * June 9 - John Hagelin, physicist and U.S. Presidential candidates * June 22 - Freddie Prinze, actor and comedian (d. 1977) * June 26 - Steve Barton, actor * June 27 - Ron Kirk, mayor of Dallas, Texas * July 10 - Neil Tennant, British musician * July 25 - Walter Payton, American american football player (d. 1999) ===August-December=== * August 1 - Michael J. Badnarik, software engineer and U.S. Presidential candidates * August 11 - Joe Jackson (musician), British singer * August 14 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player * August 16 - James Cameron, film director * August 20 - Al Roker, television broadcaster * August 21 - Ivan Stang, author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. * August 25 - Elvis Costello, singer * August 26 - Pauline Hanson, politician * September 13 - Steve Kilbey, Australian musician * September 23 - Cherie Booth, wife of Tony Blair * September 26 - Kevin Kennedy (baseball), baseball manager and television host * September 30 - Barry Williams, actor * October 1 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer * October 3 - Dennis Eckersley, baseball player * October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor * October 13 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician imprisoned for revealing Israeli secrets * October 24 - Mike Rounds, List of Governors of South Dakota of South Dakota * November 14 - Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State * November 14 - Willie Hernández, baseball pitcher * November 15 - Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland * November 16 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy, (d. 2004) * December 2 - Dan Butler, American actor * December 14 - Ib Andersen, dancer * December 14 - Alan Kulwicki, race car driver (d. 1993) * December 20 - Michael Badalucco, actor * December 26 - Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racing champion ===Unknown dates=== *Nenad Prokic - playwright ==Deaths== * January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879) * February 12 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896) * March 31 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, electrical engineer and inventor * May 6 - B.C. Forbes, financial publisher * May 19 - Charles Ives, American composer * April 10 - Auguste Lumière, one of the inventors of cinema (b. 1862) * June 7 - Alan Turing, mathematician * July 11 - Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author * July 13 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907) * July 14 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (b. 1866) * July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater * August 24 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil * September 21 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer * November 3 - Henri Matisse, painter * November 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist * November 29 - Dink Johnson, jazz musician (b. 1892) * November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor * December 8 - Claude Cahun, photographer and writer ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize in Physics - Max Born, - Walther Bothe * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Linus Carl Pauling * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins * Nobel Prize in Literature - Ernest Hemingway * Nobel Peace Prize - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. ==Fields Medal == *Kunihiko Kodaira, Jean-Pierre Serre ==Heads of state in 1954 == *President Juan Peron - Argentina *President Getúlio Vargas - Brazil *Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent - Canada *Mao Tse-Tung - People's Republic of China *Chiang Kai-shek - Republic of China *Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser - Egypt *Presidents Vincent Auriol and René Coty - France *Chancellor Konrad Adenauer - Germany *President Luigi Einaudi - Italy *Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru - Japan *General Francisco Franco - Spain *Prime Minister Winston Churchill - United Kingdom *President Dwight Eisenhower - United States 1954 bs:1954 la:1954 simple:1954 vi:1954
1954
*:February 11 - :Catherine Hickland, actress - an alternative source gives :1956. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hickland,+Catherine lists :Catherine Hickland's birthday as 1956. What source listed it as '54? (My source can beat up your source?) --user:Koyaanis Qatsi == page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). User talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 14:26, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
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