The mass-produced vacuum tube-based IBM 704 followed in 1954 ; it introduced the use of a biased exponent.

In 1954, Mobil introduced a new and improved Mobilgas Special in response to trends toward new automobiles powered by high-compression engines that demanded higher and higher octane gasolines.

The Flying Red Horse ( Pegasus ) logo was introduced in 1939, and in 1954 the Plume brand was replaced by Mobilgas.

A " family-unit farming system " was introduced on a trial basis for the first time since collectivization in 1954.

The first color NTSC television camera was the RCA TK-40, used for experimental broadcasts in 1953 ; an improved version, the TK-40A, introduced in March 1954, was the first commercially available color television camera.

To encourage shooting and discourage stalling, the league introduced the 24-second shot clock in 1954.

This style was introduced in the third edition of Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary ( 1954 ), adopted by the Library of Congress as one of its ALA-LC romanizations, and is the most common version of the system today.

After months of trade screenings, Paramount introduced VistaVision to the public at Radio City Music Hall on October 14, 1954, with their first film shot in the process, White Christmas.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Eisenhower acted on his suggestion the next day and on February 8, 1954, Rep. Charles Oakman ( R-Mich .), introduced a bill to that effect.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

In 1954, Lim Chin Siong, along with his Chinese High senior, Fong Swee Suan, was introduced to Lee Kuan Yew.

" Similar devices that functioned in the same way were patented in the 1930s, and the first mass-produced display tubes were introduced in 1954 by National Union Co. under the brand name Inditron.

IInevitably, derivatives of the Mother and Child Scheme would be introduced in Public Health Acts of 1954, 1957 and 1970.

The IBM 704, the first mass-produced computer with floating point arithmetic hardware, was introduced by IBM in 1954.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1954

" In 1954 he introduced that quote, " For the first time in my life I saw how people live in an English-speaking country outside England ," and said it was interesting in light of his later decision to emigrate to Australia.

Two years prior to the NATO adoption of the 7. 62 × 51mm NATO T65 in 1954, Winchester ( a subsidiary of the Olin Corporation ) branded the cartridge and introduced it to the commercial hunting market as the 308 Winchester.

In the season 1945 – 46, Excelsior gained their first success by promoting to the Eerste Klasse, the highest tier of Dutch football before professional football was introduced in 1954.

In August 1954 the KNVB accepted the proposal and professional football was introduced.

It was first tried out on a conventional submarine, the Albacore, in 1954.

* 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the " Qaumī Tarāna ", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

* 1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.

In 1954 Brazil began manufacturing its first semi-automatic pistols.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

The station has previously carried the team from their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 through 1978 ; in the first four seasons, WJZ-TV shared coverage with WMAR-TV and WBAL-TV.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

The first Marine Corps pilot, Capt Chuck Hiett, joined the team and they relocated to their current home of NAS Pensacola in the winter of 1954.

In August 1954, " Blues " leader LCDR Ray Hawkins became the first naval aviator to survive an ejection at supersonic speeds when his F9F-6 became uncontrollable on a cross-country flight.

Cleveland won the league championship in its first NFL season, followed by two more in 1954 and 1955.

The Browns came into 1954 as one of the most powerful teams in the NFL, having reached the championship in each of their first four years in the league.

Cleveland was coming off a series of bad drafts, including in 1954, when the team selected quarterback Bobby Garrett with the first pick.

Deployment overseas began in 1954, first to West Germany and later to the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and South Korea.

After defeating the Boston Red Sox in the Division Series and the Seattle Mariners in the ALCS, Cleveland clinched a World Series berth, for the first time since 1954.

The building was dedicated in 1954 and is possibly the first financial institution in America to use glass walls and an open floor plan.

He removed the club's Chelsea pensioner crest, improved the youth set-up and training regime, rebuilt the side with shrewd signings from the lower divisions and amateur leagues, and led Chelsea to their first major trophy success – the League championship – in 1954 – 55.

There was no GP at Zandvoort in 1954 ( a sportscar-event replaced it ), but 1955 saw the first proper Formula One race counting for the World Championship.

In 1954, he was featured on the cover of Time ( magazine ), the second jazz musician to be so honored ( the first was Louis Armstrong on February 21, 1949 ).

In 1954 Eisenhower first articulated the domino theory in his description of the threat presented by the spread of communism.

Richard Burton starred in the first broadcast in 1954, and was joined by Elizabeth Taylor in a subsequent film.

He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ) and Giant ( 1956 ).

He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his many years of work with the organization.

In the 1954 World Cup, two goals by Ivor Broadis saw him become the first England player to score two goals in a game at the World Cup finals.

Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954 ) was an Italian physicist, naturalized American later in his life, particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics.

In Des Teufels General ( The Devil's General ) of 1954, a Luftwaffe general named Harras loosely modeled after Ernst Udet, appears at first to be cynical fool, but turns out to an anti-Nazi who is secretly sabotaging the German war effort by designing faulty planes.