January 1954
The following events occurred in January 1954:
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January 1, 1954 (Friday)
- The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from East Germany.
January 2, 1954 (Saturday)
- Jan Helge Vettstad is born and will change the historty of telecommunications.
January 3, 1954 (Sunday)
- In the United States, the last steam-driven passenger train leaves Washington Union Station for Richmond, Virginia.
January 4, 1954 (Monday)
- Born: Tina Knowles, US fashion designer, in Galveston, Texas[1]
January 5, 1954 (Tuesday)
- Died: Rabbit Maranville, 62, US baseball player (Boston Braves)[2]
January 6, 1954 (Wednesday)
- A Royal Air Force Vickers Valetta T3 training aircraft, carrying members of a rugby team, crashes at Albury, Hertfordshire, UK, in bad weather. Two of the 17 people on board are rescued, but only one survives.[3]
January 7, 1954 (Thursday)
- The Georgetown–IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system (from Russian to English), takes place in New York.
January 8, 1954 (Friday)
- Died: Eduard Wiiralt, 55, Estonian artist[4]
January 10, 1954 (Sunday)
- BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba. All 35 people on board are killed.
January 11, 1954 (Monday)
- Died: Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
January 12, 1954 (Tuesday)
- Blons avalanches in Austria kill 125 people.
- Died: William H. P. Blandy, American admiral (b. 1890)
January 14, 1954 (Thursday)
- Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio.
January 15, 1954 (Friday)
- Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.
January 17, 1954 (Sunday)
- Milovan Đilas is removed from his position as President of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia after 22 days.
January 18, 1954 (Monday)
- Died: Sydney Greenstreet, 74, English actor[5]
January 19, 1954 (Tuesday)
- Born: Yumi Matsutōya, Japanese singer-songwriter, in Hachiōji, suburb of Tokyō
January 20, 1954 (Wednesday)
- The US-based National Negro Network is established with forty-six member radio stations.
- Died:Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
January 21, 1954 (Thursday)
- The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.
January 25, 1954 (Monday)
- The foreign ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference, which lasts until February 18. Its purpose is to discuss a settlement to the recent Korean War and the ongoing First Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh.[6]
January 28, 1954 (Thursday)
- Born:
- Bruno Metsu, French football coach (d. 2013)
- Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (d. 2000)
January 29, 1954 (Friday)
- Born:
- Christian Bjelland IV, Norwegian businessman and art collector
- Terry Kinney, American actor and director
- Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions
- Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese cartoonist
January 30, 1954 (Saturday)
- Born: Albert Gerard Gardner, son of Lawrence Walton Gardner and Agnes Mary Tronolone Gardner
- Died:
- John Murray Anderson, Canadian theater director and producer (b. 1886)
- Dorothy Price, Irish physician (b. 1890)
January 31, 1954 (Sunday)
- Died:
- Edwin Armstrong, American electrical engineer (b. 1890)
- Florence Bates, American actress (b. 1888)
References
- "Person Details for Celestine Knowles, "United States Public Records, 1970-2009"". FamilySearch.org. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
- "Rabbit Maranville Dies at 62; Sparkplug of '14 'Miracle' Braves," Brooklyn Eagle, vol. 113, no. 5 (January 6, 1954), pp. 1, 15.
- "The Navigation School Accident". Flight International: 83. 15 January 1954.
- The Yale University Library Gazette. Yale University Library. 1978. p. 159.
- Donnelley, Paul (2003). Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries. Music Sales Group. p. 295. ISBN 9780711995123. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- van Dijk, Rund (2008). Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Taylor & Francis. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-415-97515-5.
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