1954

Summary

1954 (MCMLIV) 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.

From top to bottom, left to right: A thermonuclear test, code named Castle Romeo; The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, United States; Surface weather map of Hurricane Hazel near landfall in North Carolina; U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the advocate of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état; Soldiers of the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War of Independence.; Final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup; Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet "About the transfer of the Crimean Oblast", Supreme Council Herald; Damage from the 1954 Blons avalanches
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1954 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1954
MCMLIV
Ab urbe condita2707
Armenian calendar1403
ԹՎ ՌՆԳ
Assyrian calendar6704
Baháʼí calendar110–111
Balinese saka calendar1875–1876
Bengali calendar1361
Berber calendar2904
British Regnal yearEliz. 2 – 3 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2498
Burmese calendar1316
Byzantine calendar7462–7463
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4651 or 4444
    — to —
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
4652 or 4445
Coptic calendar1670–1671
Discordian calendar3120
Ethiopian calendar1946–1947
Hebrew calendar5714–5715
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2010–2011
 - Shaka Samvat1875–1876
 - Kali Yuga5054–5055
Holocene calendar11954
Igbo calendar954–955
Iranian calendar1332–1333
Islamic calendar1373–1374
Japanese calendarShōwa 29
(昭和29年)
Javanese calendar1885–1886
Juche calendar43
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4287
Minguo calendarROC 43
民國43年
Nanakshahi calendar486
Thai solar calendar2497
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
2080 or 1699 or 927
    — to —
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
2081 or 1700 or 928

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January edit

 
January 14: Marilyn weds DiMaggio.

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Births edit

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

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Kailash Satyarthi
 
Howard Stern
 
Katey Sagal
 
Oprah Winfrey

February edit

 
Bill Mumy
 
Andrei Karlov
 
Matt Groening
 
Rene Russo
 
John Travolta
 
Anthony Head
 
Viktor Yushchenko
 
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

March edit

 
Ron Howard
 
François Fillon
 
Catherine O'Hara
 
Robert Carradine
 
Clive Palmer

April edit

 
Jackie Chan
 
Dennis Quaid
 
Angelika Hellmann
 
Jerry Seinfeld

May edit

 
Johnny Logan
 
David Paterson
 
Townsend Coleman

June edit

 
Dennis Haysbert
 
Harvey Fierstein
 
Jim Belushi
 
Kathleen Turner
 
Michael Anthony

July edit

 
Andre Dawson
 
Mario Kempes
 
Angela Merkel
 
Edward Natapei
 
Hossein Nuri
 
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
 
Jorge Jesus
 
Hugo Chávez

August edit

 
François Hollande
 
James Cameron
 
Andrés Pastrana Arango
 
Al Roker
 
Halimah Yacob
 
Alexander Lukashenko

September edit

 
Carly Fiorina
 
Cherie Blair

October edit

 
Al Sharpton
 
Scott Bakula
 
David Lee Roth
 
Ken Stott
 
Ang Lee
 
Malcolm Turnbull

November edit

 
Kamal Haasan
 
Condoleezza Rice
 
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
 
Paolo Gentiloni

December edit

 
Dan Butler
 
Tony Todd
 
Jermaine Jackson
 
Uli Jon Roth
 
Denzel Washington

Date not known edit

Deaths edit

January edit

 
Edwin Howard Armstrong

February edit

 
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp

March edit

 
Otto Diels

April edit

 
Léon Jouhaux

May edit

 
Heinz Guderian

June edit

 
Alan Turing

July edit

 
Frida Kahlo
 
Jacinto Benavente

August edit

 
Alcide de Gasperi

September edit

 
Washington Phillips

October edit

 
Robert H. Jackson

November edit

 
Henri Matisse
 
Enrico Fermi
 
Wilhelm Furtwängler

December edit

Nobel Prizes edit

 

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