January 1954

The following events occurred in January 1954:

January 1, 1954 (Friday)

• The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from East Germany.

January 5, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Died:
  • Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (Boston Braves) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891)
  • Lillian Rich, English actress (b. 1900)

January 8, 1954 (Friday)

• Died:Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian artist (b. 1898)

January 10, 1954 (Sunday)

• BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba. All 35 people on board are killed.

January 11, 1954 (Monday)

• Died:Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)

January 12, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200.
• Died:William H. P. Blandy, American admiral (b. 1890)

January 14, 1954 (Thursday)

• Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio.

January 15, 1954 (Friday)

• Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.

January 17, 1954 (Sunday)

• In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties.

January 18, 1954 (Monday)

• Died:Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)

January 20, 1954 (Wednesday)

• The US-based National Negro Network is established with forty-six member radio stations.
• Died:Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)

January 21, 1954 (Thursday)

• The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.

January 25, 1954 (Monday)

• The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference.

January 28, 1954 (Thursday)

• Born:
  • Bruno Metsu, French football coach (d. 2013)
  • Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (d. 2000)

January 30, 1954 (Saturday)

• Died:
  • John Murray Anderson, Canadian theater director and producer (b. 1886)
  • Dorothy Price, Irish physician (b. 1890)

• Born:
  • Albert Gerard Gardner, son of Lawrence Walton Gardner and Agnes Mary Tronolone Gardner

January 31, 1954 (Sunday)

• Died:
  • Edwin Armstrong, American electrical engineer (b. 1890)
  • Florence Bates, American actress (b. 1888)

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