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The following events occurred in January 1954:
January 1, 1954 (Friday)
[edit | edit source]- 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]
January 2, 1954 (Saturday)
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January 3, 1954 (Sunday)
[edit | edit source]- 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]
January 4, 1954 (Monday)
[edit | edit source]- Born: Tina Knowles, US fashion designer, in Galveston, Texas[4]
January 5, 1954 (Tuesday)
[edit | edit source]- Died:
- Rabbit Maranville, 62, US baseball player (Boston Braves)[5]
- Lillian Rich, 54, English actress[6]
January 6, 1954 (Wednesday)
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- The Georgetown–IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system (from Russian to English), took place in New York.[8]
January 8, 1954 (Friday)
[edit | edit source]- Died: Eduard Wiiralt, 55, Estonian artist[9]
January 9, 1954 (Saturday)
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January 10, 1954 (Sunday)
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- 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)
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- 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)
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January 17, 1954 (Sunday)
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- Died: Sydney Greenstreet, 74, English actor[19]
January 19, 1954 (Tuesday)
[edit | edit source]- A lunar eclipse occurred.[20]
- Born: Yumi Matsutōya, Japanese singer-songwriter, in Hachiōji, suburb of Tokyō[citation needed]
January 20, 1954 (Wednesday)
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- Born:
- Bruno Metsu, French football coach (d. 2013)[25]
- Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (d. 2000)[26]
January 29, 1954 (Friday)
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- Died:
- John Murray Anderson, 67, Canadian theater director and producer[31]
- Dorothy Price, 63, Irish physician, stroke[32]
January 31, 1954 (Sunday)
[edit | edit source]- Died:
- Florence Bates, 65, American actress[33]
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