January 1954

[January 1], 1954 (Friday)

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

  January 2, 1954 (Saturday)

[January 3], 1954 (Sunday)

• In the United States, the last steam-driven passenger train leaves Washington Union Station for Richmond, Virginia.

  [January 4], 1954 (Monday)

• Born: Tina Knowles, US fashion designer, in Galveston, Texas

  [January 5], 1954 (Tuesday)

• Died: Rabbit Maranville, 62, US baseball player

  [January 6], 1954 (Wednesday)

• A Royal Air Force Vickers Valetta T3 training aircraft, carrying members of a rugby team, crashes at Albury, Hertfordshire, UK, in bad weather. Two of the 17 people on board are rescued, but only one survives.

  January 7, 1954 (Thursday)

[January 8], 1954 (Friday)

• Died: Eduard Wiiralt, 55, Estonian artist

  January 9, 1954 (Saturday)

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

  January 12, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Blons avalanches in Austria kill 125 people.
• Died:William H. P. Blandy, American admiral

  January 13, 1954 (Wednesday)

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 16, 1954 (Saturday)

[January 17], 1954 (Sunday)

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

  [January 18], 1954 (Monday)

• Died: Sydney Greenstreet, 74, English actor

  January 19, 1954 (Tuesday)

January 20, 1954 (Wednesday)

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

  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 22, 1954 (Friday)

January 23, 1954 (Saturday)

January 24, 1954 (Sunday)

[January 25], 1954 (Monday)

• The foreign ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference, which lasts until February 18. Its purpose is to discuss a settlement to the recent Korean War and the ongoing First Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh.

  January 26, 1954 (Tuesday)

January 27, 1954 (Wednesday)

January 28, 1954 (Thursday)

• Born:
• *Bruno Metsu, French football coach
• *Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor

  January 29, 1954 (Friday)

• Born:
• * Christian Bjelland IV, Norwegian businessman and art collector
• * Terry Kinney, American actor and director
• * Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions
• * Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese cartoonist

  January 30, 1954 (Saturday)

• Died:
• *John Murray Anderson, Canadian theater director and producer
• *Dorothy Price, Irish physician
• Born:
• * Albert Gerard Gardner, son of Lawrence Walton Gardner and Agnes Mary Tronolone Gardner

  January 31, 1954 (Sunday)

• Died:
• *Edwin Armstrong, American electrical engineer
• *Florence Bates, American actress