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1954 October 2024 1954 border:none;b 3/3/3/3 Victory in Battle of Dien Bien Phu.jpg Polio Vaccination 1950s (cropped).jpg Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 1954 (Com M03-0108-005-0020).jpg 1954 Geneva Conference.jpg National Liberation Army Soldiers (8).jpg President Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles in 1956 (cropped).jpg Damage from Hurrican Hazel, Humber River, looking n. from Islington Ave., e. of Woodbridge -a.jpg Lawinenunglück in Blons.jpg Castle Romeo.jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a decisive Vietnamese victory; Jonas Salk announces the polio vaccine; The 1954 FIFA World Cup sees West Germany win its first title; The Geneva Conference ends the First Indochina War, dissolves French Indochina, and divides Vietnam at the 17th parallel; The Algerian War begins with the Toussaint Rouge attacks; The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état ousts President Jacobo Árbenz; Hurricane Hazel devastates the Caribbean, the U.S., and Canada; The 1954 Blons avalanches kill dozens in Austria; Castle Romeo is detonated in the Pacific. 1954 1954 2 Events January January 1954 January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.Il 1954 IN ITALIA http://www.ribolla2004.it/testi02/index.php Ribolla 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20111007200202/http://www.ribolla2004.it/testi02/index.php October 7, 2011 1954 IN ITALY it 2004 November 6, 2022 January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM.701 Translator January 8, 1954 https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_translator.html IBM Archives 701 Reference room November 4, 2022 January 10 – 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.http://accidents-ll.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=28 January 27, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20130215210450/http://accidents-ll.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=28 February 15, 2013 de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 Lessons Learned From Transport Airplane Accidents Federal Aviation Administration November 4, 2022 January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200.January 14, 1954 200 dead, missing in avalanches https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18404463 January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.https://nation.africa/lifestyle/lifestyle/The-Mau-Mau-general-who-stopped-Amin-in-his-tracks-/1214-887822-fu8jft/index.html The Mau Mau general who stopped Amin in his tracks Nation March 27, 2010 Nation Media Group November 5, 2022 January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus SSN-571 6, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/nautilus-ssn-571-iv.html Nautilus IV (SSN-571) Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships August 12, 2015 Naval History and Heritage Command November 4, 2022 January 25 – The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference.van Dijk Rund Encyclopedia of the Cold War Taylor & Francis 2008 51 978-0-415-97515-5 thumb|120px|January 14: Marilyn weds DiMaggio. February February 1954 February 10 – After authorizing $385 million over the $400 million already budgeted for military aid to Vietnam, President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against his country's intervention in Vietnam. February 19 – 1954 transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. February 23 – The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Shors T Understanding viruses https://books.google.com/books?id=VQeamKFwyvgC&pg=PA294 22 February 2011 2008 Jones & Bartlett Learning 978-0-7637-2932-5 294– live https://web.archive.org/web/20140721060240/http://books.google.com/books?id=VQeamKFwyvgC&pg=PA294 21 July 2014 February 25 – Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of Egypt. March March 1954 March 1 U.S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test (Castle Bravo) has been conducted, on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The explosion produces a yield of 15 megatons TNT instead of the predicted 5 MT; the Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryū Maru is caught up inside the fallout zone, some 80 miles from the explosion with several of her crew members suffering from radiation sickness as a consequence. U.S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound 5; they are apprehended by security guards. March 9 – American journalists Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce a 30-minute See It Now documentary, entitled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy. March 12 – Finland and Germany officially end their state of war. March 13 – Việt Minh forces under General Võ Nguyên Giáp began a massive artillery bombardment on the French military, beginning the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle of the First Indochina War. March 19 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory at Madison Square Garden in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in colour. March 23 – In Vietnam, the Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army units there are partially isolated. March 25 The 26th Academy Awards Ceremony is held. The Soviet Union recognises the sovereignty of East Germany. Soviet troops remain in the country. March 27 – The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion is executed at Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands. March 28 The trial of A. L. Zissu and 12 other Zionist leaders ends with harsh sentences in Communist Romania. Puerto Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commences broadcasting. March 29 – A C-47 transport with French nurse Geneviève de Galard on board is wrecked on the runway at Dien Bien Phu. March 30 – The first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto.Toronto Subway – CSCE / SCGC https://legacy.csce.ca/en/historic-site/toronto-subway/ 2025-09-27 en-US April April 1954 April 1 The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorize the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. South Point School in India is founded, and becomes the largest school in the world by 1992. April 3 – Petrov Affair: Diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects from the Soviet Union and asks for political asylum in Australia. April 4 – Legendary symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert broadcast live from Carnegie Hall in New York City. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and he never conducts in public again. April 7 – Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech, during a news conference. April 8 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Air Lines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people. April 10 – The modern form of value-added tax is first implemented by Maurice Lauré, joint director of the French tax authority, in France's Ivory Coast colony.Helgason Agnar Freyr Unleashing the 'money machine': the domestic political foundations of VAT adoption Socio-Economic Review 15 4 797–813 10.1093/ser/mwx004 2017 April 11 This day is denoted as the most boring day in the 20th century by True Knowledge, an answer engine developed by William Tunstall-Pedoe. No significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8160622/Computer-identifies-the-most-boring-day-in-history.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101127183400/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8160622/Computer-identifies-the-most-boring-day-in-history.html dead November 27, 2010 The Most Boring Day in History – April 11, 1954 The Daily Telegraph London November 25, 2010 July 19, 2014 In a general election in Belgium, the dominant Christian Social Party wins 95 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, and 49 of the 106 seats in the Senate. The government led by Jean Van Houtte loses their majority in parliament. The two other main parties, the Socialist and Liberal Party, subsequently form a rare "purple" government, with Achille Van Acker as Prime Minister.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p289 978-3-8329-5609-7 April 12 – Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in their first session for American Decca in New York City; it is released on May 20 as a B-side, but only in 1955 becomes a #1 hit, helping to initiate the rock and roll craze. April 14 Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet in protest over his party's failure to oppose the rearmament of West Germany. A Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled. April 16 – Vice President Richard Nixon announces that the United States may be "putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support".Vietnam War Almanac: an In-Depth Guide to the Most Controversial Conflict in American History Willbanks, James H. 2013 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc 9781626365285 New York 855969323 April 22 The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees comes into force, defining the status of refugees and setting out the basis for granting right of asylum. Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism. April 26 An international conference on Korea and Indo-China opens in Geneva. Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is released in Japan. April 28 – U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles accuses Communist China of sending combat troops to Indo-China to train Viet Minh guerrillas.Logevall Fredrik Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam Random House 2012 978-0-679-64519-1 May May 1954 May 1 – The Unification Church is founded in South Korea. May 4 – General Alfredo Stroessner deposes Federico Chaves in a coup d'état in Paraguay; from August 15 he will hold the office of President until 1989. May 6 – Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four minute mile, in Oxford, England. May 7 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13). May 8 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is formed in Manila, Philippines. May 11 – U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles declares that Indochina is important but not essential to the security of Southeast Asia, thus ending any prospect of American intervention on the side of France. May 14 The Boeing 367-80, prototype for the later Boeing 707 jetliner, is rolled out in the United States, after about 2 years of development. The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict is adopted in The Hague, Netherlands. May 15 – The Latin Union (Unión Latina) is created by the Convention of Madrid. Its member countries use the five Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. It suspended operations in 2012. May 16 – Beginning of the Kengir uprising in the Gulag.Dunn Morgan How The Prisoners Behind The Kengir Uprising Fought Back Against The Horrors of the Gulag https://allthatsinteresting.com/kengir-uprising allthatsinteresting.com May 15, 2021 April 1, 2024 May 17 Brown v. Board of Education (347 US 483 1954): The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that segregated schools are unconstitutional. The Royal Commission on the Petrov Affair in Australia begins its inquiry. Adnan Menderes of the Democrat Party forms the new (21st) government of Turkey. May 20 – Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected as the president of the Republic of China, by the National Assembly. May 22 – The common Nordic Labour Market act is signed. May 26 – A fire on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bennington, off Narragansett Bay, Massachusetts, kills 103 sailors.Edwards Christopher 2011-01-01 Fire Down Below! https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2011/january/fire-down-below 2025-09-02 U.S. Naval Institute en May 29 1954 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by H.V. Evatt. The election has come shortly after the Petrov Affair, arguably helping the Government survive what was initially predicted to be a defeat. Creation and first meeting of the Bilderberg Group. Diane Leather becomes the first woman to run a sub-five minute mile, in Birmingham, England.http://www.sporting-heroes.net/athletics/great-britain/diane-leather-422/two-world-records-in-1957_a08872/ Diane Leather Sporting Heroes November 12, 2012 June June 1954 June 6 – The grand opening of the sculpture of Yuriy Dolgorukiy takes place in Moscow (this statue is one of the main monuments of Moscow). June 7 – English cryptanalyst, mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, age 41, commits suicide by cyanide poisoning. June 9 – McCarthyism: Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy, during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army, saying, "Have you, at long last, no decency?"Robert D. Marcus and Anthony Marcus, ""Have You No Sense of Decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings" https://web.archive.org/web/20210912160950/http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6444/ September 12, 2021 , History Matters The exchange results in the decline of McCarthy's popularity. June 14 – The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance. June 15 – The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland. June 17 – A CIA-engineered military coup occurs in Guatemala. June 18 – Pierre Mendès France becomes prime minister of France. June 22 Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South Carolina, for sitting in a white-only section. Parker–Hulme murder case: Pauline Parker, 16 and her friend Juliet Hulme, 15, bludgeon Parker's mother to death using a brick, at Victoria Park in New Zealand. June 27 Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years. The world's first atomic power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow. July July 1954 July 1 The Common Nordic Labor Market Act comes into effect. The United States officially begins using the international unit of the nautical mile, equal to 6,076.11549 ft. or 1,852 meters. July 4 Food rationing in Great Britain ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II, and nearly a decade after the war's end. "Miracle of Bern": West Germany beats Hungary 3–2 to win the 1954 FIFA World Cup. July 10 – Peter Thomson becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship. July 15 The Boeing 367-80 (or Dash 80), prototype of the Boeing 707 series, makes its maiden flight. Juan Fangio, Argentine driver for German Grand Prix team Mercedes-Benz, makes a new fastest lap of the Silverstone Circuit in England, with an average speed of 100.35 mph, the previous record being 100.16 mph. July 17 – First Indochina War: Viet Minh troops successfully ambush the armoured French column 'G.M. 42' in the Battle of Chu Dreh Pass in the Central Highlands. It is the last battle of the war.Fall Bernard Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina 2005 Stackpole Military History Bernard Fall 240 9780811732369 July 19 – Release of Elvis Presley's first single, a cover of "That's All Right", by Sun Records (recorded July 5 in Memphis, Tennessee). July 21 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a demarcation line. The agreement leads to the establishment of the North Vietnam regime and the state of South Vietnam. July 29 – The construction of Yad Vashem started in Jerusalem. It is an official memorial center to commemorate the victims of the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis and their accomplices in Europe. July 29 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings, is published in London. July 31 – 1954 Italian expedition to K2: Italian mountaineers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni become the first to reach the summit of the second highest mountain in the world, in the Karakoram range. August August 1954 August 1 – The First Indochina War ends with the Vietnam People's Army in North Vietnam, the Vietnamese National Army in South Vietnam, the Kingdom of Cambodia in Cambodia, and the Kingdom of Laos in Laos, emerging victorious against the French Army. August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets, dies of asphyxiation following an epileptic seizure. She is the first of the Canadian five to perish; three live into the 21st century. August 16 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published in the United States. August 23 – A United States Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules makes its first flight at Burbank, California, manufactured by Lockheed Martin. August 24 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas commits suicide, after being accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder his chief political opponent, Carlos Lacerda. September September 1954 September 5 - KLM flight 633, a Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation named “Triton”, attempted to ditch into the river Shannon immediately after takeoff from Shannon Airport, Ireland. 28 of the 56 passengers and crew were killed September 6 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) treaty is signed in Manila, Philippines. September 8 – SEATO is established in Bangkok, Thailand. September 9 – The 6.7 w y Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The shock destroys Orléansville, leaving 1,243–1,409 dead, and 5,000 injured. September 11 – The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time. September 14 The Soviet Union carries out the Totskoye nuclear exercise. English composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera version of The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy. September 17 – William Golding's allegorical dystopian novel Lord of the Flies is published in London. September 18 – Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi is the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.https://www.jstor.org/stable/3001358 3001358 Hodgson John H. The Paasikivi Line American Slavic and East European Review 1959 18 2 145–173 10.2307/3001358 subscription Paasikivi Tukholmassa: J. K. Paasikiven toiminta Suomen lähettiläänä Tukholmassa 1936–39 155–156 Otava 1978 Max Jakobson Helsinki 951-1-05126-1 fi September 20 – The first Moomins comic strip is published in the London newspaper The Evening News.https://theslingsandarrows.com/moomin-the-deluxe-anniversary-edition/ Slings & Arrows September 24 – The Cochabamba–Santa Cruz highway connecting western and eastern Bolivia is inaugurated.Cruceños into Cambas: Regionalism and Revolutionary Nationalism in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (1935-1959) Pruden Hernan Stony Brook University https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1713&context=stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection 148 2012 PhD September 25 – Footscray Football Club wins their first Australian Football League Grand Final. September 26 – Japanese ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are killed, 7 other ships are wrecked, and at least nine others seriously damaged. September 27 – The Tonight Show first airs on live television on NBC in the United States being the first late night talk show. September 30 – The Nautilus SSN-571, the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the United States Navy. October October 1954 October 11 Pre-Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam. Hurricane Hazel crosses over Haiti, killing 1,000. October 15 – Hurricane Hazel makes U.S. landfall; it is the only recorded Category 4 hurricane to strike as far north as North Carolina October 18 Texas Instruments announces the development of the first commercial transistor radio. The Regency TR-1 goes on sale the following month. The comic strip Hi and Lois, by Mort Walker and Dik Browne, is launched in the United States. October 23 Paris Agreement sets up the Western European Union to implement the Treaty of Brussels (1948), providing for mutual self-defence and other collaboration between Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Germany is granted admission to the NATO which becomes effective in 1955. October 25 – Landslides caused by heavy rains hit Salerno, Italy, killing about 300. October 26 – Muslim Brotherhood member Mahmoud Abdul Latif tries to kill Gamal Abdel Nasser. October 31 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule. November November 1954 November 1 – The FLN attacks representative and public buildings of the French colonial power. November 2 The dock workers' strike in the UK comes to an end. The radio program Hancock's Half Hour, a pioneer in situation comedy, is first broadcast on BBC Radio (a television version will follow in 1956). November 3 – The first Godzilla film premieres in Tokyo. November 5 – Japan and Burma sign a peace treaty in Rangoon, to end their long-extinct state of war. November 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial), at the Arlington National Cemetery. November 12 – The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes permanently. November 13 – Great Britain defeats France, to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators November 14 – Egyptian president Muhammad Naguib is deposed, and Gamal Abdel Nasser replaces him. November 21 – People's Action Party, an eventual dominative political party in Singapore, was established.Weiqi Yan In Pictures – Celebrating 70 years of the PAP https://petir.sg/2024/11/21/in-pictures-celebrating-70-years-of-the-pap/ Petir SG 24 November 2024 21 November 2024 November 22 – Berman v. Parker (348 U.S. 26): The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the federal slum clearance and urban renewal programs. November 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86 percent, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level, reached just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. November 30 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, a four-kilogram piece of the Hodges Meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person. December December 1954 December 1 – The first Hyatt Hotel, The Hyatt House Los Angeles, opens on the grounds of Los Angeles International Airport. It is the first hotel in the world built on an airport property. December 2 Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 67–22 to censure Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The Taiwan-United States Mutual Defense Treaty is signed.s:Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China December 3 A German court dismisses charges against Werner Naumann, head of the Neo-Nazi Naumann Circle. Väinö Linna's war novel The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) is published.https://www.verkkouutiset.fi/a/eduskunnassa-juhlittiin-70-vuotiasta-tuntematonta-sotilasta/#b0cd81e5 Eduskunnassa juhlittiin 70-vuotiasta Tuntematonta sotilasta The 70-year-old 'The Unknown Soldier' was celebrated in the Finnish Parliament Ville Mäkilä Verkkouutiset 4 December 2024 5 December 2024 fi December 4 – The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida. December 15 – The Netherlands Antilles is created out of the Dutch Caribbean nations. It is dissolved between 1986 and 2010. December 23 – J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray perform the world's first successful kidney transplantation, in Boston, Massachusetts. December 24 – Laos gains full independence from France. Date unknown New Zealand engineer Sir William Hamilton develops the first pump-jet engine (the "Hamilton Jet") capable of propelling a jetboat.Sir William Hamilton OBE http://www.hamiltonjet.co.nz/about_hamiltonjet/sir_william_hamilton HamiltonJet 2007 November 12, 2012 The first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and named the Wigomat after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.Sixty years of the Federal Republic of Germany – a retrospective of everyday life http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lp/prj/mtg/typ/bun/en4922236.htminventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/coffee.htm December 28, 2002 The Boy Scouts of America desegregates on the basis of race. Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) are brought to the United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker. The case of Lothar Malskat, who had admitted that he had painted the supposedly antique frescoes in Marienkirche himself, goes to trial. The TV dinner is introduced, by American entrepreneur Gerry Thomas. In South Vietnam, the Viet Minh is reorganised into the Viet Cong. After the death of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union starts releasing political prisoners and deportees from its Gulag prison camps. 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Meldal, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureatePress release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 October 5, 2022 The Nobel Prize https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/press-release/ October 6, 2022 January 17 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental lawyer, 2024 United States presidential election candidate January 19 Ted DiBiase, American professional wrestlerhttp://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/t/ted-dibiase.html Ted DiBiase's OWW Profile October 14, 2007 Online World of Wrestling Katey Sagal, American actress and singerCathcart Rebecca https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/television/09cath.html Out From Under All That Big kik The New York Times November 7, 2008 Katharina Thalbach, German actress January 21 – Thomas de Maizière, German politician January 22 – Peter Pilz, Austrian politician January 23 Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer, songwriter Edward Ka-Spel, British/Dutch singer and songwriter (The Legendary Pink Dots) January 28 Peter Lampe, German theologian, historian Bruno Metsu, French football coach (d. 2013)https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur17403.html Fiche de Bruno Metsu (???), l'actu le palmares et les stats de Bruno Metsu L'Équipe April 11, 2025 Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (d. 2000)https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018139233.html Shiozawa, Kaneto, 1954-2000 Library of Congress LC Name Authority File (LCNAF) November 5, 2022 Willy Telavi, 11th prime minister of Tuvalu January 29 Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese cartoonistJonathan Clements Jonathan Clements Hoshino Yukinobu The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction John Clute John Clute David Langford David Langford SFE Ltd/Ansible Editions September 12, 2022 Web November 4, 2022 https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hoshino_yukinobu Oprah Winfrey, African-American actress, talk show hostess, producer and publisherhttp://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13529332g Notice de personne "Winfrey, Oprah (1954-....)" 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Edwin H. Armstrong, whose inventions provided much of the basis for modern broadcasting, was found dead yesterday morning on a third-floor balcony of River House, 435 East Fifty-second Street. The 63-year-old electrical engineer had plunged from a window of his luxurious thirteenth-floor apartment, apparently late Sunday evening or during the night. February 8 – Laurence Trimble, American actor (b. 1885) February 9 – Mabel Paige, American actress (b. 1880) February 12 – Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896) February 19 – Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, 24th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1883) February 21 – William K. Howard, American film director (b. 1899) March thumb|100px|right|Otto Diels March 7 Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) Will H. Hays, Namesake for the Hays Code (b. 1879) March 9 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874) March 12 – Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)Patricia M. 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Naukowe 10 Thorvald Ellegaard, Danish track cyclist (b. 1877)April 27, 2017 Today in Transportation History – 1954: The Passing of a Danish Cycling Legend https://transportationhistory.org/2017/04/27/today-in-transportation-history-1954-the-passing-of-a-danish-cycling-legend/ December 28, 2023 Transportation History April 28 – Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879) April 29 – Joe May, Austrian-born film director (b. 1880) May thumb|100px|right|Heinz Guderian May 1 – Tom Tyler, American actor (b. 1903) May 5 – Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1885) May 6 – B. C. 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Biography, Facts, & Education Encyclopædia Britannica October 11, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171011184445/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing#toc330986 October 11, 2017 live June 9 – Alain LeRoy Locke, American writer, philosopher and educator (b. 1885) June 24 – Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman, 5th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1874) June 30 – Andrass Samuelsen, 1st prime minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1873) July thumb|100px|Frida Kahlo thumb|100px|Jacinto Benavente July 1 Thea von Harbou, German actress (b. 1888) Tomás Monje, 41st President of Bolivia (b. 1884) July 6 Gabriel Pascal, Hungarian-born film producer and director (b. 1894) Cornelia Sorabji, Indian-born lawyer (b. 1866) July 13 Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)Zamora Martha Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish https://archive.org/details/fridakahlobrusho0000zamo registration 1990 Chronicle Books 978-0-87701-746-2 12 Irving Pichel, American actor and director (b. 1891) July 14 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) July 16 – Herms Niel, German composer (b. 1888) July 17 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895) July 19 – Hannes Meyer, Swiss architect (b. 1889) July 28 – Sōjin Kamiyama or "Sojin", Japanese film star during the silent film era (b. 1884) August thumbnail|right|100px|Harriet Mack thumbnail|right|100px|Alcide de Gasperi August 2 – Harriet Mack, American politician (b. 1866) August 3 – Colette, French novelist (b. 1873) Portuges Catherine Jouve Nicole Ward Colette Sartori Eva Martin Zimmerman Dorothy Wynne French Women Writers University of Nebraska Press 1994 0803292244 80–81 August 11 – Murray Kinnell, English actor (b. 1889)Murray Kinnell August 14 – Hugo Eckener, German president of the Zeppelin Dirigible Company (b. 1868) August 19 – Alcide De Gasperi, Italian statesman and Christian Democracy politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881) August 24 – Getúlio Vargas, 14th and 17th President of Brazil (b. 1882) September September 2 – Franz Leopold Neumann, German political activist and Marxist theorist (b. 1900) September 3 – Eugene Pallette, American actor (b. 1889) September 5 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860) September 7 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)https://www.nytimes.com/1954/09/08/archives/harry-c-bud-fisher-creator-of-mutt-and-jeff-is-deadat-69-he-began.html Harry C. (Bud) Fisher, Creator Of 'Mutt and Jeff,' Is Dead at 69; He Began Famous Comic Strip 'Early in Century--Owned 'String of Thoroughbreds The New York Times September 8, 1954 (abstract) September 8 – André Derain, French artist, painter and sculptor (b. 1880) September 21 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. 1858)http://alist-magazine.com/home/unforgattable-dream/ Svetlana Kim Kokichi Mikimoto's Unforgettable Dream alist-magazine.com October 10, 2024 December 6, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161206055718/http://alist-magazine.com/home/unforgattable-dream/ dead September 25 – Eugenio d'Ors, Spanish writer (b. 1881) September 26 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868) September 27 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881) September 28 – Bert Lytell, American actor (b. 1885) September 29 – Martin Wetzer, Finnish general (b. 1868) October thumb|100px|Robert H. Jackson October 9 – Robert H. Jackson, United States Supreme Court associate justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1892) October 12 – George Welch, American aviator (b. 1918) October 19 – Hugh Duffy, American baseball player (Boston Braves) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1866) October 22 – Jibanananda Das, Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in Bengali (b. 1899) October 28 – Austin Hobart Clark, American zoologist (b. 1880) October 30 – Wilbur Shaw, American racing driver (b. 1902) November thumb|100px|Henri Matisse thumb|100px|Enrico Fermi thumb|100px|Wilhelm Furtwängler November 3 – Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869)Schneider Pierre Matisse George Braziller 1984 New York 740 0500091668 November 10 – Édouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1870) November 11 – Suzanne Noël, French plastic surgeon, the first female plastic surgeon in the world (b. 1878) November 13 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881) November 15 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878) November 16 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (b. 1874) November 20 – Clyde Cessna, American aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer, founder of the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (b. 1879) November 22 Moroni Olsen, American actor (b. 1889) Andrey Vyshinsky, Russian jurist and diplomat, former Soviet Foreign Minister (b. 1883) November 28 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)November 29, 1954 Enrico Fermi Dead at 53; Architect of Atomic Bomb The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0929.html dead January 21, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20190314034514/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0929.html March 14, 2019 November 30 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886) December December 1 – Fred Rose, American songwriter (b. 1898) December 8 Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer (b. 1894) Gladys George, American actress (b. 1904) December 17 – Marie Celeste, American soprano and actress (b. 1875) December 20 – James Hilton, English novelist (b. 1900) December 30 Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863) Günther Quandt, German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana (b. 1881) Nobel Prizes right|100px Physics – Max Born, Walther Bothe Chemistry – Linus Pauling Medicine – John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins Literature – Ernest Hemingway Peace – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 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