* 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, President of Brazil ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.

More recent uses include: by France during the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ), the Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ), the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) and the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), The Six-Day War by Israel ( 1967 ), in Nigeria ( 1969 ), India and Pakistan ( 1965 and 1971 ), Turkey during the invasion of Cyprus ( 1974 ), by Morocco during the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), Iran ( 1980 – 88 ), Brazil ( 1972 ), Egypt ( 1973 ), Iraq ( 1980 – 88, 1991, 2003 – 2011 ), Angola ( 1993 ), Yugoslavia ( 1991-1996 ), and by Argentina ( 1982 ).

* April 19 – Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil ( d. 1954 )

* Honorary Member, Geographical Societies of Norway ( 1953 ), Peru ( 1953 ), Brazil ( 1954 )

* Kirby Minter – Well-known retired basketball player, played for team USA in the 1954 FIBA World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The club was managed by Zezé Moreira, who was the manager of Brazil at the World Cup in 1954, and won the Paulista Championship after beating Guarani 2 – 1 in the Campinas a week before the end of the competition.

The musical style known in Brazil as " Brazilian rock n ' roll " dates back to a Portuguese-version cover of " Rock Around the Clock " in 1954.

* Pintinho, real name Carlos Alberto Gomes, born 1954, Brazil footballer at 1972 Olympics

On March 21, 1954 a new official attendance record was set in the game between Brazil and Paraguay, after 183, 513 spectators entered the stadium with a ticket and 177, 656 in Fla-Flu ( 1963 ).

In Rivers, Wiesel writes that the first version of Night was written on a boat en route to Brazil in 1954, and that he handed the original 862-page manuscript to Turkov on the boat.

Nilton was a key player in defence during the 1954, 1958 and 1962 World Cup finals ( he was also in the Brazilian squad for the 1950 finals, but made no appearances ) and became famous for scoring a magnificent goal in the 1958 tournament when Brazil played Austria.

The Ford Versailles name has been used for two different automobiles: between 1954 – 1957 in France and between 1992 – 1996 in Brazil

Santos made 98 official appearances for Brazil between 1952 and 1968, and was in the squad for four consecutive World Cups between 1954 and 1966.

Further branches were established in Uruguay ( 1952 ) and Beirut ( 1954 ), so that by 1957, the HBU maintained branches in the Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Suriname.

Garrincha continued to play brilliantly, but Brazil had other talented players in his position, notably Julinho and together with a new European style of play centered on team work, he was not named in the squad for the 1954 World Cup.

The Battle of Berne is used to refer to a football match at the 1954 World Cup between Hungary and Brazil, a quarter-final played on June 27, 1954 at the Wankdorf Stadium in Berne, Switzerland.

After having closed their market to imported cars in 1954, assembly of the " Willys Jeep Universal " ( as it was known in Brazil ) from CKD kits began in 1957.

She served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1952 to 1954, and was sold to Brazil in 1956 and renamed Minas Gerais.

In 2006, taking advantage of better film-transfer and film-restoration technologies, Criterion published improved-image versions, with bonus materials, of early catalog titles such as Amarcord ( 1973 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

Starting in 1954, Isetta was licensed to automobile manufacturers in several countries: France ( by VELAM ), Spain, Great Britain and Brazil ( by Romi ).

With the aid of matching federal funds available under Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954 as amended, the planning division began a one year program July 1, 1960 to complete the inventory phase of the state planning program.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

Actual shooting began in October 1954 at the Ted Allan Studios, but further money problems quickly halted the production.

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

By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.

There were localized flare-ups when the Red Army began shelling the islands of Quemoy and Matsu in September 1954.

He began, however, getting more involved in live action films, producing classics like 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1954 ), and Old Yeller ( 1957 ).

In 1954, GP began with the evolutionary algorithms first used by Nils Aall Barricelli applied to evolutionary simulations.

In 1954 Holden began exporting the FJ to New Zealand.

In 1954 while attending Northwestern High School, he began working for WTOP-TV, creating puppets for a Saturday morning children's show called The Junior Morning Show.

* 1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory ( the battle began on March 13 ).

* 1962 – The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.

In October 1954, Meher Baba discarded his alphabet board and began using a unique set of hand gestures to communicate.

The service began operating in Palm Springs, California on November 27, 1953, but due to pressure from the FCC, the service ended on May 15, 1954.

By 1954 an estimated 2, 500 Soviet naval advisers were in China — possibly one adviser to every thirty Chinese naval personnel — and the Soviet Union began providing modern ships.

By 1954, as rock and roll was beginning to emerge, a number of similar acts began to cross over from the R & B charts to mainstream success, often with added honking brass and saxophone, with The Crows, The Penguins, The El Dorados and The Turbans all scoring major hits.

The tradition of using the semantic domain of color names as an object for investigation of linguistic relativity began with Lenneberg and Roberts ' 1953 study of Zuni color terms and color memory, and Brown and Lenneberg's 1954 study of English color terms and color memory.

Stockcar racing began in New Zealand during the 1950s, first race was at Aranui Speedway on November 27, 1954.

Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.

Ditko began professionally illustrating comic books in early 1953, drawing writer Bruce Hamilton's science-fiction story " Stretching Things " for the Key Publications imprint Stanmor Publications, which sold the story to Ajax / Farrell, where it finally found publication in Fantastic Fears # 5 ( cover-dated Feb. 1954 ).

Vegemite's rise to popularity was helped by the marketing campaigns written by J. Walter Thompson advertising that began in 1954, using groups of smiling, attractive healthy children singing a catchy jingle entitled " We're happy little Vegemites ".

In 1951, the German engineer Felix Wankel began development of the engine at NSU Motorenwerke AG, where he first conceived his rotary engine in 1954 ( DKM 54, Drehkolbenmotor ).

In 1951, Libya became the first African country to gain independence in the decade, and in 1954 the Algerian War began.

Lee began training in Wing Chun at the age of 13 under the Wing Chun teacher Yip Man in 1954, after losing a fight with rival gang members.