September 1954

September 1, 1954 (Wednesday)

September 3, 1954 (Friday)

  • The last 'new' episode of The Lone Ranger radio program is broadcast, after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years. Reruns of old episodes continue to be transmitted.
  • Died: Eugene Pallette, American actor (b. 1889)

September 4, 1954 (Saturday)

  • Soviet war planes shot down a US bomber near or over the coast of Siberia. 9 of the 10 crewmembers would be rescued.
  • Dmitri Shostakovich was awarded the International Peace Prize, in Moscow.
  • U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower signed a bill allowing revocation of the citizenship of anyone advocating violent overthrow of the government.

September 5, 1954 (Sunday)

September 6, 1954 (Monday)

September 7, 1954 (Tuesday)

September 8, 1954 (Wednesday)

September 9, 1954 (Thursday)

  • Chlef earthquake: an earthquake centered on the city of Orléansville, Algeria kills 1,500 and leaves thousands homeless.

September 11, 1954 (Saturday)

  • The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.

September 14, 1954 (Tuesday)

September 15, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • Black Wednesday in air travel: severe delays to flights due to bad weather along the East Coast of the United States.

September 17, 1954 (Friday)

September 18, 1954 (Saturday)

September 21, 1954 (Tuesday)

September 22, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • A riot occurs at Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. During the incident four inmates are killed and multiple guards are injured. several parts of the prison are burned by inmates. Burnt areas of the prison from the riot would remain for ten years.

September 23, 1954 (Thursday)

Pat Bowe was born in Vicarstown, Co Laois on this day.

September 24, 1954 (Friday)

September 25, 1954 (Saturday)

  • Footscray Football Club win their first Australian Football League Grand Final.

September 26, 1954 (Sunday)

  • The Japanese ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a Typhoon Marie in the Tsugaru Strait. According to Government of Japan official confirmed, killing total 1,505 person, including 1,155 of Tōya Maru. Seven other ships are wrecked and at least nine others seriously damaged.

September 28, 1954 (Tuesday)

September 29, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • The CERN Convention finally came into force on 29 September, when France and Germany deposited their instruments of ratification at UNESCO House in Paris.

http://timeline.web.cern.ch/cern-exists

September 30, 1954 (Thursday)

  • The USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the U.S. Navy.

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