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{{short description|Month of 1954}} |
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{{Events by month|1954}} |
{{Events by month|1954}} |
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{{calendar|year=1954|month=January}} |
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[[File:Lawinenunglück in Blons.jpg|600px|thumb|January 12, 1954: Damage from the [[1954 Blons avalanches|Blons avalanches]] in [[Austria]].]] |
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The following events occurred in '''January 1954''': |
The following events occurred in '''January 1954''': |
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==[[January 1]], 1954 (Friday)== |
==[[January 1]], 1954 (Friday)== |
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*The Soviet Union |
*The Soviet Union ceased to demand war reparations from Germany.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} |
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*According to a 1953 press statement by [[Bolesław Bierut]], [[Polish United Workers' Party#Party leaders|General Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party]], Poland renounced all claims to war reparations from Germany as of January 1, 1954. |
*According to a 1953 press statement by [[Bolesław Bierut]], [[Polish United Workers' Party#Party leaders|General Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party]], Poland renounced all claims to war reparations from Germany as of January 1, 1954. {{Asof|2022}}, however, the position of the Polish government is that Poland did not renounce its claim to reparations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/09/09/the-legal-questions-behind-polands-claim-for-war-reparations-from-germany/ |last=Piątkowski |first=Mateusz |title=The legal questions behind Poland's claim for war reparations from Germany |date=9 September 2022 |publisher=Notes From Poland |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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==[[January 3]], 1954 (Sunday)== |
==[[January 3]], 1954 (Sunday)== |
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*The Italian broadcaster [[RAI]] officially began transmitting.<ref>{{cite web |title=Il 1954 IN ITALIA |url=http://www.ribolla2004.it/testi02/index.php |website=Ribolla 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007200202/http://www.ribolla2004.it/testi02/index.php |archive-date=7 October 2011 |trans-title=1954 IN ITALY |language=it |year=2004 |access-date=6 November 2022}}</ref> |
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*In the United States, the last [[steam locomotive|steam-driven]] [[passenger train]] |
*In the United States, the last [[steam locomotive|steam-driven]] [[passenger train]] left [[Washington Union Station]] for [[Richmond, Virginia]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} |
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*'''Born:''' [[Ned Lamont]], American politician, Governor of Connecticut, in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLIbAQAAMAAJ&q=ned+lamont+1954 |title=The Roads to Congress 2006 |isbn=9781600218323 |last1=Ahuja |first1=Sunil |last2=Dewhirst |first2=Robert E. |year=2007 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> |
*'''Born:''' [[Ned Lamont]], American politician, Governor of Connecticut, in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLIbAQAAMAAJ&q=ned+lamont+1954 |title=The Roads to Congress 2006 |isbn=9781600218323 |last1=Ahuja |first1=Sunil |last2=Dewhirst |first2=Robert E. |year=2007 |publisher=Nova Science |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> |
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==[[January 4]], 1954 (Monday)== |
==[[January 4]], 1954 (Monday)== |
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*'''Born:''' [[Tina Knowles]], US fashion designer, in Galveston, Texas<ref>{{ |
*'''Born:''' [[Tina Knowles]], US fashion designer, in Galveston, Texas<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ2W-77LL |title=Person Details for Celestine Knowles, "United States Public Records, 1970-2009" |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[FamilySearch.org]] |access-date=27 August 2017}}</ref> |
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==[[January 5]], 1954 (Tuesday)== |
==[[January 5]], 1954 (Tuesday)== |
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**[[Rabbit Maranville]], 62, US baseball player (Boston Braves)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2550891/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/ |title=Rabbit Maranville Dies at 62; Sparkplug of '14 'Miracle' Braves |newspaper=[[Brooklyn Eagle]] |volume=113 |issue=5 |date=6 January 1954 |pages=1, 15}}</ref> |
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**[[Lillian Rich]], 54, English actress<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/161093%7C99136/Lillian-Rich/#overview |title=Lillian Rich |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies, Inc.]] |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> |
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==[[January 6]], 1954 (Wednesday)== |
==[[January 6]], 1954 (Wednesday)== |
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*A [[Royal Air Force]] [[Vickers Valetta|Vickers Valetta T3]] training aircraft, carrying members of a [[rugby football|rugby]] team, [[1954 Aldbury Valetta accident| |
*A [[Royal Air Force]] [[Vickers Valetta|Vickers Valetta T3]] training aircraft, carrying members of a [[rugby football|rugby]] team, [[1954 Aldbury Valetta accident|crashed]] at [[Albury]], [[Hertfordshire]], UK, in bad weather. Two of the 17 people on board were rescued, but only one survived.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Navigation School Accident |journal=[[Flight International]] |page=83 |date=15 January 1954 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1954/1954%20-%200169.html}}</ref> |
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==January 7, 1954 (Thursday)== |
==January 7, 1954 (Thursday)== |
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*The [[Georgetown–IBM experiment]], the first public demonstration of a machine translation system (from Russian to English), |
*The [[Georgetown–IBM experiment]], the first public demonstration of a machine translation system (from Russian to English), took place in New York.<ref>{{cite web |title=701 Translator |date=8 January 1954 |url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_translator.html |website=IBM Archives |department=701 Reference room |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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==[[January 8]], 1954 (Friday)== |
==[[January 8]], 1954 (Friday)== |
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*'''Died:''' [[Eduard Wiiralt]], 55, Estonian artist<ref>{{cite book|title=The Yale University Library Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NMaAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Yale University Library|page=159}}</ref> |
*'''Died:''' [[Eduard Wiiralt]], 55, Estonian artist<ref>{{cite book |title=The Yale University Library Gazette |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NMaAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=[[Yale University Library]] |page=159 |via=Google Books}}</ref> |
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==January 9, 1954 (Saturday)== |
==January 9, 1954 (Saturday)== |
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==January 10, 1954 (Sunday)== |
==January 10, 1954 (Sunday)== |
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[[File:DH Comet 1 BOAC G-ALYP.webp|thumb|right|The BOAC Flight 781 accident aircraft]] |
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*[[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. |
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*[[BOAC Flight 781]], a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrated in mid-air due to metal fatigue and crashed in the Mediterranean near Elba, killing all 35 people on board.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://accidents-ll.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=28 |date=27 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215210450/http://accidents-ll.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=28 |archive-date=15 February 2013 |title=de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 |website=Lessons Learned From Transport Airplane Accidents |publisher=[[Federal Aviation Administration]] |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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==January 11, 1954 (Monday)== |
==[[January 11]], 1954 (Monday)== |
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*[[1954 Blons avalanches|Avalanches]] in [[Vorarlberg]], Austria killed 125 people. The avalanches lasted 2 days.<ref> https://arc.lib.montana.edu/snow-science/objects/ISSW2018_P03.5.pdf</ref> |
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*'''Died:''' [[Oscar Straus (composer)|Oscar Straus]], Austrian composer (b. 1870) |
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**[[John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon]], 80, British politician<ref>{{cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-john-simon-1/index.html |title=Mr John Simon (Hansard) |publisher=[[UK Parliament]] |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> |
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**[[Oscar Straus (composer)|Oscar Straus]], 83, Austrian composer<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139001174 |title=Notice de personne "Straus, Oscar (1870-1954)" |trans-title=Person notice "Straus, Oscar (1870-1954)" |language=fr |date=5 January 2015 |publisher=[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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==January 12, 1954 (Tuesday)== |
==[[January 12]], 1954 (Tuesday)== |
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*[[1954 Blons avalanches|Blons avalanches]] in Austria kill 125 people. |
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*'''Died:''' [[William H. P. Blandy]], American admiral (b. 1890) |
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**[[William H. P. Blandy]], 63, American admiral<ref>{{cite web |title=Blandy, William H. P. |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/us-people/b/blandy-william-h-p.html |publisher=[[Naval History and Heritage Command]] |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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**[[Elmer H. Geran]], 78, American politician<ref>{{cite web |title=GERAN, Elmer Hendrickson 1875 – 1954 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000133 |work=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |access-date=6 November 2022}}</ref> |
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==January 14, 1954 (Thursday)== |
==[[January 14]], 1954 (Thursday)== |
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[[File:Monroe DiMaggio Wedding.jpg|thumb|right|January 1954: Newlyweds Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe]] |
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*[[Marilyn Monroe]] married baseball player [[Joe DiMaggio]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Spoto |first=Donald |author-link=Donald Spoto |title=Marilyn Monroe: The Biography |year=2001 |publisher=[[Cooper Square Press]] |page=260 |isbn=978-0-8154-1183-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/marilynmonroe00dona |access-date=4 November 2022 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> |
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*'''Born:''' [[Jim Duggan|"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]], American professional wrestler, in [[Glens Falls, New York]] |
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==January 15, 1954 (Friday)== |
==[[January 15]], 1954 (Friday)== |
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*British troops captured [[Mau Mau Uprising|Mau Mau]] leader [[Waruhiu Itote]] in [[British Kenya|Kenya]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nation.africa/lifestyle/lifestyle/The-Mau-Mau-general-who-stopped-Amin-in-his-tracks-/1214-887822-fu8jft/index.html |title=The Mau Mau general who stopped Amin in his tracks |website=Nation |date=27 March 2010 |publisher=[[Nation Media Group]] |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> |
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*[[Mau Mau Uprising|Mau Mau]] leader [[Waruhiu Itote]] is captured in [[British Kenya|Kenya]]. |
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*'''Born:''' [[Rashad al-Alimi]], Yemeni politician, Chairman of the [[Presidential Leadership Council]], in [[Taiz Governorate]], Yemen<ref>https://presidentalalimi.net/content.php?id=1</ref> |
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==January 16, 1954 (Saturday)== |
==[[January 16]], 1954 (Saturday)== |
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==[[January 17]], 1954 (Sunday)== |
==[[January 17]], 1954 (Sunday)== |
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*[[Milovan |
*[[Milovan Djilas]] was removed from his position as [[List of presidents of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia|President of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia]] after 22 days.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} |
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*'''Born:''' [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]], American lawyer and activist, [[2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries|2024 Democratic presidential candidate]], in [[Washington, D.C.]] |
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==[[January 18]], 1954 (Monday)== |
==[[January 18]], 1954 (Monday)== |
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*'''Died:''' [[Sydney Greenstreet]], 74, English actor<ref>{{cite book| |
*'''Died:''' [[Sydney Greenstreet]], 74, English actor<ref>{{cite book |last=Donnelley |first=Paul |title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries |date=2003 |publisher=[[Music Sales Group]] |isbn=9780711995123 |page=295 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAhtNiAl3YsC&q=%22Sydney+Hughes+Greenstreet%22&pg=PA295 |access-date=1 April 2017 |via=Google Books}}</ref> |
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==January 19, 1954 (Tuesday)== |
==[[January 19]], 1954 (Tuesday)== |
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*A [[January 1954 lunar eclipse|lunar eclipse]] occurred.<ref>http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse/gen_stats.cgi?mode=query&page=full&qtype=type&body=L&saros=133</ref> |
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*'''Born:''' [[Yumi Matsutōya]], Japanese singer-songwriter, in [[Hachiōji]], suburb of Tokyō |
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{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} |
*'''Born:''' [[Yumi Matsutōya]], Japanese singer-songwriter, in [[Hachiōji]], suburb of Tokyō{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} |
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==January 20, 1954 (Wednesday)== |
==[[January 20]], 1954 (Wednesday)== |
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[[File:Marunouchi line-opening1954.jpg|thumb|Part of the opening ceremony for the [[Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line|Marunouchi Line]] at [[Ikebukuro Station]]]] |
[[File:Marunouchi line-opening1954.jpg|thumb|Part of the opening ceremony for the [[Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line|Marunouchi Line]] at [[Ikebukuro Station]]]] |
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*The [[Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line]], the second line in the system and the first built after [[World War II]], |
*The [[Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line]], the second line in the system and the first built after [[World War II]], was opened between [[Ikebukuro Station|Ikebukuro]] and [[Ochanomizu Station|Ochanomizu]] stations.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} |
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*Chicago businessman [[W. Leonard Evans Jr.]] established the US-based [[National Negro Network]] with forty-six member radio stations.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} |
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*'''Died:''' [[Fred Root]], 63, English cricketer<ref>{{cite periodical |title=Fred Root |periodical=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]] |year=1955 |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/155509.html |publisher=[[John Wisden & Co]] |access-date=4 November 2022 |via=[[ESPNcricinfo]]}}</ref> |
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*'''Died:''' [[Fred Root]], English cricketer (b. 1890) |
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*The coldest temperature recorded in the [[contiguous United States]] is recorded at [[Rogers Pass, Montana]]. The temperature officially reached -69.7 °F (-56.5 °C), but is often rounded to -70 °F (-56.7 °C). |
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==January 21, 1954 (Thursday)== |
==[[January 21]], 1954 (Thursday)== |
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*The first nuclear-powered submarine, the |
*The first nuclear-powered submarine, the {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571}}, was launched in [[Groton, Connecticut]], by [[First Lady of the United States]] [[Mamie Eisenhower]].<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/nautilus-ssn-571-iv.html |title=Nautilus IV (SSN-571) |dictionary=[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] |date=12 August 2015 |publisher=Naval History and Heritage Command |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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==January 22, 1954 (Friday)== |
==[[January 22]], 1954 (Friday)== |
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* '''Died:''' [[Princess Margaret of Prussia]],81, granddaughter of [[Queen Victoria]] Who married Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and the King-elect of Finland.<ref>{{Cite book |title=children of Empire p.36 |isbn=9781800460720}}</ref> |
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==January 24, 1954 (Sunday)== |
==[[January 24]], 1954 (Sunday)== |
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==[[January 25]], 1954 (Monday)== |
==[[January 25]], 1954 (Monday)== |
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*The foreign ministers of the [[United States]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[France]] and the [[Soviet Union]] |
*The foreign ministers of the [[United States]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[France]] and the [[Soviet Union]] met at the [[Berlin Conference, 1954|Berlin Conference]], which would last until February 18. Its purpose was to discuss a settlement to the recent [[Korean War]] and the ongoing [[First Indochina War]] between France and the [[Viet Minh]].<ref>{{cite book |last=van Dijk |first=Rund |title=Encyclopedia of the Cold War |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |year=2008 |page=51 |isbn=978-0-415-97515-5}}</ref> |
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==January 27, 1954 (Wednesday)== |
==[[January 27]], 1954 (Wednesday)== |
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==January 28, 1954 (Thursday)== |
==[[January 28]], 1954 (Thursday)== |
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*'''Born:''' |
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**[[Bruno Metsu]], French football coach (d. 2013) |
**[[Bruno Metsu]], French football coach (d. 2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.footballdatabase.eu/en/player/details/2236-bruno-metsu |title=Bruno Metsu - Stats and titles won |publisher=footballdatabase.eu |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> |
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**[[Kaneto Shiozawa]], Japanese voice actor (d. 2000)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018139233.html |title=Shiozawa, Kaneto, 1954-2000 |website=[[Library of Congress]] |department=LC Name Authority File (LCNAF) |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> |
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**[[Kaneto Shiozawa]], Japanese voice actor (d. 2000) |
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** [[Christian Bjelland IV]], Norwegian businessman and art collector |
** [[Christian Bjelland IV]], Norwegian businessman and art collector<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://snl.no/Christian_Bjelland |title=Christian Bjelland |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |editor-last=Bolstad |editor-first=Erik |language=no |date=9 September 2021 |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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** [[Terry Kinney]], American actor and director<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/terry-kinney-48189 |title=Terry Kinney - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=[[Internet Broadway Database]] |publisher=[[The Broadway League]] |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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** [[Terry Kinney]], American actor and director |
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** [[Oprah Winfrey]], American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded [[Harpo Productions]] |
** [[Oprah Winfrey]], American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded [[Harpo Productions]]<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13529332g |title=Notice de personne "Winfrey, Oprah (1954-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Winfrey, Oprah (1954-....)" |language=fr |date=2 December 2010 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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** [[Yukinobu Hoshino]], Japanese cartoonist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Jonathan |last=Clements |author-link=Jonathan Clements |title=Hoshino Yukinobu |encyclopedia=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]] |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-link=David Langford |publisher=SFE Ltd/[[Ansible Editions]] |date=12 September 2022 |edition=Web |access-date=4 November 2022 |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hoshino_yukinobu}}</ref> |
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** [[Yukinobu Hoshino]], Japanese cartoonist |
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==January 30, 1954 (Saturday)== |
==[[January 30]], 1954 (Saturday)== |
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**[[John Murray Anderson]], Canadian theater director and producer |
**[[John Murray Anderson]], 67, Canadian theater director and producer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/john-murray-anderson-6874 |title=John Murray Anderson - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> |
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**[[Dorothy Price]], 63, Irish physician, [[stroke]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The 1916 Diary of Dorothy Stopford Price |url=http://dh.tcd.ie/pricediary/about-dorothy-price-her-family/about-dorothy-price |website=About Dorothy Price |publisher=[[Trinity College Dublin]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128224746/https://dh.tcd.ie/pricediary/about-dorothy-price-her-family/about-dorothy-price/ |archive-date=28 November 2021 |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> |
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**[[Dorothy Price]], Irish physician (b. 1890) |
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==January 31, 1954 (Sunday)== |
==[[January 31]], 1954 (Sunday)== |
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*'''Died:''' |
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**[[Edwin Howard Armstrong]], 63, American electrical engineer, [[suicide by jumping]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Armstrong, FM Inventor, Dies In Leap From East Side Suite |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |issn=0362-4331 |date=February 2, 1954 |page=1 |quote=Maj. Edwin H. Armstrong, whose inventions provided much of the basis for modern broadcasting, was found dead yesterday morning on a third-floor balcony of River House, 435 East Fifty-second Street. The 63-year-old electrical engineer had plunged from a window of his luxurious thirteenth-floor apartment, apparently late Sunday evening or during the night.}}</ref> |
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**[[Edwin Armstrong]], American electrical engineer (b. 1890) |
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**[[Florence Bates]], 65, American actress<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p4525 |last=Erickson |first=Hal |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |title=Florence Bates {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=[[AllMovie]], Netaktion LLC |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> |
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**[[Florence Bates]], American actress (b. 1888) |
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==References== |
==References== |
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The following events occurred in January 1954:
- The Soviet Union ceased to demand war reparations from Germany.[citation needed]
- According to a 1953 press statement by Bolesław Bierut, General Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party, Poland renounced all claims to war reparations from Germany as of January 1, 1954. As of 2022[update], however, the position of the Polish government is that Poland did not renounce its claim to reparations.[1]
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- The Italian broadcaster RAI officially began transmitting.[2]
- In the United States, the last steam-driven passenger train left Washington Union Station for Richmond, Virginia.[citation needed]
- Born: Ned Lamont, American politician, Governor of Connecticut, in Washington, D.C.[3]
- Born: Tina Knowles, US fashion designer, in Galveston, Texas[4]
- Died:
- Rabbit Maranville, 62, US baseball player (Boston Braves)[5]
- Lillian Rich, 54, English actress[6]
- A Royal Air Force Vickers Valetta T3 training aircraft, carrying members of a rugby team, crashed at Albury, Hertfordshire, UK, in bad weather. Two of the 17 people on board were rescued, but only one survived.[7]
January 7, 1954 (Thursday)
[edit]- The Georgetown–IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system (from Russian to English), took place in New York.[8]
- Died: Eduard Wiiralt, 55, Estonian artist[9]
January 9, 1954 (Saturday)
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January 10, 1954 (Sunday)
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- BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrated in mid-air due to metal fatigue and crashed in the Mediterranean near Elba, killing all 35 people on board.[10]
January 11, 1954 (Monday)
[edit]- Avalanches in Vorarlberg, Austria killed 125 people. The avalanches lasted 2 days.[11]
- Died:
- John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, 80, British politician[12]
- Oscar Straus, 83, Austrian composer[13]
January 12, 1954 (Tuesday)
[edit]- Died:
- William H. P. Blandy, 63, American admiral[14]
- Elmer H. Geran, 78, American politician[15]
January 13, 1954 (Wednesday)
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January 14, 1954 (Thursday)
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- Marilyn Monroe married baseball player Joe DiMaggio.[16]
- Born: "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, American professional wrestler, in Glens Falls, New York
January 15, 1954 (Friday)
[edit]- British troops captured Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote in Kenya.[17]
- Born: Rashad al-Alimi, Yemeni politician, Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, in Taiz Governorate, Yemen[18]
January 16, 1954 (Saturday)
[edit]January 17, 1954 (Sunday)
[edit]- Milovan Djilas was removed from his position as President of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia after 22 days.[citation needed]
- Born: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer and activist, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, in Washington, D.C.
January 18, 1954 (Monday)
[edit]- Died: Sydney Greenstreet, 74, English actor[19]
January 19, 1954 (Tuesday)
[edit]- A lunar eclipse occurred.[20]
- Born: Yumi Matsutōya, Japanese singer-songwriter, in Hachiōji, suburb of Tokyō[citation needed]
January 20, 1954 (Wednesday)
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- The Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line, the second line in the system and the first built after World War II, was opened between Ikebukuro and Ochanomizu stations.[citation needed]
- Chicago businessman W. Leonard Evans Jr. established the US-based National Negro Network with forty-six member radio stations.[citation needed]
- Died: Fred Root, 63, English cricketer[21]
- The coldest temperature recorded in the contiguous United States is recorded at Rogers Pass, Montana. The temperature officially reached -69.7 °F (-56.5 °C), but is often rounded to -70 °F (-56.7 °C).
January 21, 1954 (Thursday)
[edit]- The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), was launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.[22]
January 22, 1954 (Friday)
[edit]- Died: Princess Margaret of Prussia,81, granddaughter of Queen Victoria Who married Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and the King-elect of Finland.[23]
January 23, 1954 (Saturday)
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January 24, 1954 (Sunday)
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January 25, 1954 (Monday)
[edit]- The foreign ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union met at the Berlin Conference, which would last until February 18. Its purpose was to discuss a settlement to the recent Korean War and the ongoing First Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh.[24]
January 26, 1954 (Tuesday)
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January 27, 1954 (Wednesday)
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January 28, 1954 (Thursday)
[edit]- Born:
- Bruno Metsu, French football coach (d. 2013)[25]
- Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (d. 2000)[26]
January 29, 1954 (Friday)
[edit]- Born:
- Christian Bjelland IV, Norwegian businessman and art collector[27]
- Terry Kinney, American actor and director[28]
- Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions[29]
- Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese cartoonist[30]
January 30, 1954 (Saturday)
[edit]- Died:
- John Murray Anderson, 67, Canadian theater director and producer[31]
- Dorothy Price, 63, Irish physician, stroke[32]
January 31, 1954 (Sunday)
[edit]- Died:
- Edwin Howard Armstrong, 63, American electrical engineer, suicide by jumping[33]
- Florence Bates, 65, American actress[34]
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Maj. Edwin H. Armstrong, whose inventions provided much of the basis for modern broadcasting, was found dead yesterday morning on a third-floor balcony of River House, 435 East Fifty-second Street. The 63-year-old electrical engineer had plunged from a window of his luxurious thirteenth-floor apartment, apparently late Sunday evening or during the night.
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