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The following events occurred in January 1954:
January 1, 1954 (Friday)
- The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from East 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. However, as of 2022 the position of the Polish government is that Poland did not renounce its claim to reparations.[1]
January 2, 1954 (Saturday)
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January 3, 1954 (Sunday)
- In the United States, the last steam-driven passenger train leaves Washington Union Station for Richmond, Virginia.
- Born: Ned Lamont, American politician, Governor of Connecticut, in Washington, D.C.[2]
January 4, 1954 (Monday)
- Born: Tina Knowles, US fashion designer, in Galveston, Texas[3]
January 5, 1954 (Tuesday)
- Died: Rabbit Maranville, 62, US baseball player (Boston Braves)[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
January 8, 1954 (Friday)
- Died: Eduard Wiiralt, 55, Estonian artist[7]
January 9, 1954 (Saturday)
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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.[8]
January 11, 1954 (Monday)
- Died: Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)[9]
January 12, 1954 (Tuesday)
- Blons avalanches in Austria kill 125 people.
- Died: William H. P. Blandy, American admiral (b. 1890)
January 13, 1954 (Wednesday)
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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 16, 1954 (Saturday)
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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[10]
January 19, 1954 (Tuesday)
- Born: Yumi Matsutōya, Japanese singer-songwriter, in Hachiōji, suburb of Tokyō[citation needed]
January 20, 1954 (Wednesday)
- The Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line, the second line in the system and the first built after World War II, is opened between Ikebukuro and Ochanomizu stations.[citation needed]
- 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 22, 1954 (Friday)
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January 23, 1954 (Saturday)
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January 24, 1954 (Sunday)
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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.[11]
January 26, 1954 (Tuesday)
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January 27, 1954 (Wednesday)
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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)
- 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
- ^ Piątkowski, Mateusz (9 September 2022). "The legal questions behind Poland's claim for war reparations from Germany". Notes From Poland. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ Ahuja, Sunil; Dewhirst, Robert E. (2007). The Roads to Congress 2006. ISBN 9781600218323 – via Google Books.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "701 Translator". 701 Reference room. IBM Archives. 8 January 1954. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ The Yale University Library Gazette. Yale University Library. 1978. p. 159.
- ^ "de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1". Lessons Learned From Transport Airplane Accidents. Federal Aviation Administration. 27 January 2012. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ "Notice de personne "Straus, Oscar (1870-1954)"" [Person notice "Straus, Oscar (1870-1954)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ 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.