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April 11, 1954: Piero Scotti after victory at the 1954 Coppa della Toscana. Italian driver Piero Scotti won the 1954 Coppa della Toscana sports car race in a Ferrari 375 MM. [25] In a general election in Belgium, the Christian Social Party won 95 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, and 49 of the 106 seats in the Senate. [26]
April 2. Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force general (b. 1899) Maud Barger-Wallach, tennis player (b. 1870) April 8 – Fritzi Scheff, singer and actress (b. 1879 in Austria) April 19 – Russell Davenport, journalist and publisher (b. 1899) April 21 – Emil Post, mathematician and logician (b. 1897) April 29 – Joe May, film director (b. 1880 in ...
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.
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7 April. President Eisenhower used the phrase "falling dominoes" in a press conference. This was the origin of the domino theory which postulated that if Vietnam became communist the other nearby states would soon follow. The domino theory was a prominent justification for the Vietnam War in the United States during the 1960s. [7]: 10 14 April
April 4 – Abraham Albert Heaps, politician and labor leader (b. 1885) April 8 – Winnifred Eaton, author (b. 1875) April 13 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890) June 18 – Welland Gemmell, politician and Minister; August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b ...
9 April – Lim Hng Kiang, former politician. 9 May – Ho Peng Kee, legal academic and former politician. 13 July – Lim Swee Say, former politician. 23 August – Halimah Yacob, 8th President of Singapore. 13 September – George Yeo, former politician. 22 September – Marcus Chin, actor.
3 April – Oxford wins the 100th Boat Race. [6] 14 April – Aneurin Bevan resigns from the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet in protest over his party's failure to oppose the rearmament of West Germany. 24 April – Wolverhampton Wanderers win the Football League First Division title for the first time in their history. [7]