Events
DateEvent
1954 Robert Aldridge Was Born
1954 Franco Alfano Died
1954 René Amengual Died
1954 Robert Beaser Was Born
1954 Jonathan Berger Was Born
1954 Frederick Bianchi Was Born
1954 Richard Blackford Was Born
1954 Hakon Børresen Died
1954 Walter Braunfels Died
1954 Elisabetta Brusa Was Born
1954 Glenn Buhr Was Born
February 07 1954 Alfred Burt Died
1954 Michel Camilo Was Born
1954 Robert Carl Was Born
1954 Philip Greeley Clapp Died
1954 Michael Daugherty Was Born
1954 Paul Dirmeikis Was Born
1954 Eric Ewazen Was Born
1954 Harry Lawrence Freeman Died
December 06 1954 Beat Furrer Was Born
1954 Wilhelm Furtwängler Died
1954 Noel Gay Died
1954 Vladimír Hirsch Was Born
1954 Charles Ives Died
1954 Stephen Jaffe Was Born
1954 Thomas Jennefelt Was Born
1954 Ron Jones Was Born
1954 Eric Moe Was Born
1954 Steve Morse Was Born
1954 Cecilie Ore Was Born
1954 Norbert Walter Peters Was Born
1954 Tobias Picker Was Born
1954 Fred Raymond Died
1954 Sergio Rendine Was Born
March 03 1954 Arturo Rodas Was Born
1954 Jean Roger-Ducasse Died
1954 Jan Sandström Was Born
1954 Clare Shore Was Born
1954 Jack Stamp Was Born
1954 Oscar Straus Died
1954 Marco Tutino Was Born
1954 Carl Vine Was Born
1954 Judith Weir Was Born
1954 René Wohlhauser Was Born
1954 John Woolrich Was Born
January 01 1954 NBC Makes First Coast-to-coast Color Broadcast
May 10 1954 Barrington Pheloung Was Born
1954 Yanni Was Born
1954 Sylvie Bodorová Was Born
January 07 1954 First Demonstration Of Machine Translation System
January 10 1954 Plane Explodes Over Tyrrhenian Sea, 35 Dead
January 14 1954 The American Motors Corporation Is Formed
January 20 1954 National Negro Network Has 40 Member Radio Stations
January 21 1954 First Nuclear Sub Nautilus Christened By First Lady
February 10 1954 U.S. President Eisenhower Warns Against Vietnam Intervention
February 13 1954 Selvy Scores 100 Points In College Basketball Game
February 15 1954 Canada, U.S. Construct Distant Early Warning Line
February 18 1954 Los Angeles: First Church Of Scientology Established
February 23 1954 Pittsburgh Polio Inoculation
February 25 1954 Nasser Made Premier Of Egypt
February 28 1954 First Color Television Using NTSC For Sale
March 01 1954 The Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Occurs In The Pacific
March 01 1954 Five Representatives Injured In Puerto Rican Attack
March 09 1954 ""A Report On Senator Joseph McCarthy"" Premieres
March 13 1954 Viet Minh Attack French At Dien Bien Phu
March 19 1954 Giardello Wins First Televised Fight In Color
March 19 1954 Willie Mosconi Ran 526 Consecutive Balls Without A Miss
March 22 1954 London Bullion Market Reopens
March 30 1954 Yonge Street First Subway In Canada
April 01 1954 President Eisenhower Creates Air Force Academy
April 07 1954 Eisenhower Gives ""domino Theory"" Speech
April 08 1954 37 People Killed In Canadian Plane Crash
April 08 1954 21 Killed On South African Airways Crash
April 18 1954 Gamal Abdal Nasser Seizes Power In Egypt
April 19 1954 Urdu And Bengali Accepted As National Languages
April 22 1954 Witnesses Testify On Live Television In Army-McCarthy Hearings
April 25 1954 Bell Telephone Laboratories Demonstrate First Solar Cell
April 26 1954 Geneva Conference Begins In Indochina And Korea
May 06 1954 Roger Bannister Runs Mile Four Minutes
May 07 1954 Vietnam Wins Dien Bien Phu Battle
May 10 1954 Bill Haley Releases Number One Song
May 13 1954 Anti-National Service Riots Take Place
May 13 1954 Original Broadway Production Of The Pajama Game
May 17 1954 Supreme Court Unanimous On Brown Decision
May 29 1954 First Of The Annual Bilderberg Conferences
June 09 1954 Joseph Welch Rebukes Joseph McCarthy
June 12 1954 Dominic Savio Youngest Unmartyred Saint In Church
June 14 1954 Eisenhower Signs ""under God"" Into US Pledge
June 15 1954 UEFA Is Formed In Basel, Switzerland
June 18 1954 Mendès-France Becomes French Prime Minister
June 22 1954 Christchurch Girls Murder Mother For Friendship
June 24 1954 Vietminh Ambush French At Mang Yang
June 27 1954 First Soviet Nuclear Plant Opens In Obninsk
June 27 1954 1954 FIFA World Cup Game Turns Violent
July 05 1954 BBC Broadcasts Its First Television News
July 05 1954 Presley Recorded 'That's All Right' In Memphis
July 05 1954 The Andhra Pradesh High Court Was Established
July 07 1954 Elvis's Thats All Right Debuted On WHBQ
July 15 1954 First Flight Of The Boeing 367-80
July 20 1954 Otto John Defected To East Germany
July 21 1954 Geneva Conference Separates Vietnam Into Two Countries
July 31 1954 Italian Ardito Desio Ascends K2
August 10 1954 Seaway Groundbreaking In NY Held
August 13 1954 Pakistan Broadcasts National Anthem Of Pakistan
August 15 1954 Stroessner Dictatorship Begins In Paraguay
August 16 1954 First Sports Illustrated Published
August 23 1954 C-130 Hercules Aircraft First Flight
August 24 1954 Communist Control Act Effectively Outlaws Communist Party
August 24 1954 Brazil President Kills Himself; Replaced By Filho
September 03 1954 Liberation Army Shells Quemoy
September 03 1954 German Sub U-505 Sails For Chicago Museum
September 08 1954 The SEATO Is Established
September 11 1954 Hurricane Edna Kills 29
September 14 1954 Soviets Secretly Test A-bomb Near Totskoye
September 26 1954 Japanese Typhoon Sinks Ferry, Kills 1172
September 27 1954 Steve Allen Debuts On The Tonight Show
September 29 1954 Convention Establishing CERN Is Signed
September 30 1954 U.S. Submarine First Nuclear Powered Vessel
October 11 1954 Viet Minh Take Control Of North Vietnam
October 15 1954 Hurricane Hazel Kills 95 People
October 18 1954 Texas Instruments Announces Transistor Radio
October 19 1954 First Ascent Of Cho Oyu
October 24 1954 President Pledges Support To South Vietnam
October 27 1954 Davis First African-American General In US Air Force
November 01 1954 First Shots Fired In Algerian War
November 03 1954 First Godzilla Film Released
November 10 1954 President Eisenhower Dedicates USMC War Memorial
November 13 1954 Paris: British Win First Rugby World Cup
November 19 1954 Prince Rainier Launches Monte Carlo Channel
November 22 1954 Humane Society Of The United States Founded
November 27 1954 Alger Hiss Released From Prison
November 30 1954 Only Recorded Meteorite Death Occurred In Alabama
December 02 1954 U.S. Senate Censures Sen. Joseph McCarthy
December 02 1954 Mutual Defense Treaty Signed In Washington
December 04 1954 The First Burger King Is Opened In Miami
December 15 1954 The Charter Of The Netherlands Signed
December 23 1954 Harrison And Murray Successfully Transplant Kidney