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May 22 – Chief Bender, Native American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) (b. 1884) May 25 – Robert Capa, photojournalist (killed on location in Vietnam) (b. 1913 in Hungary) June 9 – Alain LeRoy Locke, African American cultural leader (b. 1885) June 21 – Harvey A. Carr, psychologist (b. 1873) June 22 – Don Hollenbeck ...
1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
1954 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high of 382.74, the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level reached just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929; 1954 – NBC airs The Tonight Show, the first late-night talk show, originally hosted by Steve Allen; 1954 – The Democrats retake both houses of Congress in the ...
1954 American novels (65 P) P. 1954 in American politics (4 C, 7 P) S. 1954 in American sports (30 C, 11 P) T. 1954 in American television (4 C, 12 P)
A 1954 thermonuclear test, code named Castle Romeo; In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista in the Cuban Revolution, which results in the creation of the first and only communist government in the Western Hemisphere; Elvis Presley becomes the leading figure of the newly popular music genre of rock and roll in the mid-1950s.
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President Obama only has a few months left in office as November approaches, but let's take a look at some of the things we'll remember him for. 10 of Obama's greatest accomplishments Skip to main ...
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