January 1954

January 1, 1954 (Friday)

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

January 3, 1954 (Sunday)

January 4, 1954 (Monday)

January 5, 1954 (Tuesday)

January 6, 1954 (Wednesday)

January 7, 1954 (Thursday)

  • The Georgetown–IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system (from Russian to English), takes place in New York.

January 8, 1954 (Friday)

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)

January 12, 1954 (Tuesday)

January 14, 1954 (Thursday)

January 15, 1954 (Friday)

January 17, 1954 (Sunday)

  • Milovan Đilas is removed from his position as President of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia.

January 18, 1954 (Monday)

January 19, 1954 (Tuesday)

Birth:Yumi Matsutōya, Japanese singer-songwriter, in Hachiōji, suburb of Tokyō

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)

January 28, 1954 (Thursday)

January 29, 1954 (Friday)

January 30, 1954 (Saturday)

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

January 31, 1954 (Sunday)

References

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