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January 30 – John Murray Anderson, Canadian-born American actor, dancer, theatre director (b. 1886) January 31. Edwin Armstrong, electrical engineer (b. 1890) Florence Bates, character actress (b. 1888) February 6 – Maxwell Bodenheim, poet and novelist (murdered) (b. 1892) February 8 – Laurence Trimble, silent film director and actor (b ...
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.
A. Akbar A'lami; Douglas Aagard; Per Knut Aaland; Marja-Sisko Aalto; Aarathi; David Aaronovitch; Don Aase; Jaak Aaviksoo; Ab Razak Ibrahim; Florencio Abad; Patrick Abada
Congo was born in the wild in 1954. He learned to draw near the age of two, beginning when zoologist Desmond Morris offered Congo a pencil. [2] Morris said, "He took a pencil and I placed a piece of card in front of him. This is how I recorded it at the time, 'Something strange was coming out of the end of the pencil. It was Congo's first line.
1954: Candy Land Eleanor Abbott designed the Hasbro game while recovering from polio in 1945. Years later, it was still making a sweet statement—and still does to this day.
Woman modelling streetwear, Australia, 1954. Fashion photo by Gervais Purcell (1919-1999). Ivor Hele wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP; Charles Bannon wins the Blake Prize for Religious Art with his work Judas Iscariot; Overland literary magazine is founded, edited by Stephen Murray-Smith
September 9 - The 1954 Series of banknotes is introduced. September 9 – Marilyn Bell becomes the first person to swim Lake Ontario; September 18 – Marie-Victorin Statue unveiled; September 30 – Henry Hicks becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Harold Connolly; October 15 – Hurricane Hazel hits Toronto killing 81.
Born: Rashad al-Alimi, Yemeni politician, Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, in Taiz Governorate, Yemen [18] January 16 , 1954 (Saturday) [ edit ]