* 1954 – François Hollande, French politician, 24th President of France

The territory's border with Ethiopia, marked out in 1897 by France and Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia, was later reaffirmed by agreements with Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1945 and 1954.

A protocol signed by France and Ethiopia on 16 January 1954, stated that the demarcation of the boundary between the colony of Dibouti and Ethiopia as considered final, which became effective 28 February of that year.

A protocol signed by France and Ethiopia on 16 January 1954, stated that the demarcation of the boundary between the colony of Dibouti and Ethiopia as considered final, which became effective 28 February of that year.

The Jeep has been widely imitated around the world, including in France by Delahaye and by Hotchkiss et Cie ( after 1954, Hotchkiss manufactured Jeeps under license from Willys ), and in Japan by Mitsubishi Motors and Toyota.

* 1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.

* In England and France, there was a Kit Carson comic that lasted at least 350 issues ( 1950s ), and seven Kit Carson Annuals ( 1954 – 1960 ), often drawn by D. C. Eyles.

* François Fillon, born in 1954, Prime Minister of France.

* 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30, 000 spectators.

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 ).

In 1954, France and the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) developed a detailed plan called the Saarstatut to establish an independent Saarland.

In 1954, by an agreement between the British and the French, France constructed a meteorological station and a landing strip on the island.

After divorcing Rissone in France in 1954, he married Mercader in 1959, again in Mexico, but this union was not considered valid under Italian law.

After their defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 France granted independence to the nations of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

At the Geneva Conference of 1954 France and the Communists agreed to divide Vietnam and hold elections in 1956.

From 1954 onward, the city developed extensive building plans to accommodate upwards of 220, 000 inhabitants, helping it become the third fastest-growing city in France, after Toulouse and Montpellier ( 1999 census ).

In Paris, he shared a flat with his brother, who was training to become a surgeon, but for three days in the week commuted to the northern town of Lille, where he took up a position at the Université Lille Nord de France, teaching psychology from 1953 to 1954.

In France, she worked with Jean Renoir in the successful film French Cancan ( 1954 ) with Jean Gabin and in Les Heros sont Fatigues ( 1955 ) with Yves Montand.

He arrived in Indochina after the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu, which had been lost by France and which prompted prime minister Pierre Mendès France to put an end to the war at the Geneva Conference.

France had an imperial presence in the region between 1884 and 1954.

On April 27, 1954, the Geneva Conference produced the Geneva Agreements ; supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Indochina, granting it independence from France, declaring the cessation of hostilities and foreign involvement in internal Indochina affairs, delineating northern and southern zones into which opposing troops were to withdraw, they mandated unification on the basis of internationally supervised free elections to be held in July 1956.

She appeared in many notable films in France during the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin ( 1953 ), directed by Marcel Carné, Les Diaboliques ( 1954 ), and The Crucible ( Les Sorcières de Salem ; 1956 ), based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

But the war between the French colonial forces and the Việt Minh continued, ending in 1954 shortly after a major victory for the Việt Minh at Điện Biên Phủ.

The 1954 peace deal between the French and the Việt Minh, known as the Geneva Accords, involved a Korea-inspired, supposedly temporary partition of the country into " Northern " and " Southern " Vietnamese administrations.

The Việt Minh also recruited more than 600 of the Japanese soldiers, who fought in the war against France until 1954.

Transfer of civil administration of North Vietnam to the Việt Minh was given on October 11, 1954.

In 1954, Minh was captured by the Việt Minh.

By 1954, he was a major and led a battalion that attacked a Việt Minh unit, forcing the communists to withdraw from Phan Rang.

Following the Geneva Accord between Việt Minh and France in 1954, the DRV became the government of North Vietnam.

He joined the Vietnamese National Popular League ( or Liên Việt ) in 1948, Communist Party in 1949, and was kept in detention from 1950 – 52, he later came to support the 1954 Geneva agreements, but opposed the régime of South Vietnam's president, Ngô Đình Diệm.

The Saigon-Cholon Peace Committee, the first Viet Cong front, was founded in 1954 to provide leadership for this group.

As a result of the Vietnam ( Second Indochina ) War ( 1954 – 75 ), Viet Cong and regular People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) forces from the North unified Vietnam under communist rule.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

By 1954, Olympic Games apparatus and events for both men and women had been standardized in modern format, and uniform grading structures ( including a point system from 1 to 15 ) had been agreed upon.

In 1954, the United States and Canada, as part of the Atoms for Peace policy, agreed to provide and established the small research reactor, CIRUS, also at Trombay.

In 1951 Egypt repudiated the treaty, and in 1954 the UK agreed to remove its troops.

In 1954, China and India negotiated the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, by which the two nations agreed to abide in settling their disputes.

Wilson consistently avoided any commitment of British forces, giving as reasons British military commitments to the Malayan Emergency and British co-chairmanship of the 1954 Geneva Conference which agreed the cessation of hostilities and internationally supervised elections in Vietnam.

Mutara made many changes ; in 1954 he shared out the land between the Hutu and the Tutsi, and agreed to abolish the system of indentured servitude ( ubuhake and uburetwa ) the Tutsis had practised over the Hutu until then.

By the terms of the Geneva Accord ( 1954 ), which ended the Indochina War, France and the Viet Minh agreed to a truce and to a separation of forces.

In 1954 the Canadian government decided to sell the plant and Avro Canada agreed to purchase it to maintain production of the Orenda and Iroquois engines. The company employed over 400 in the production of precision forgings, blades, jet engine components, close-tolerance forging, and operation of aluminum and magnesium foundries.

A color model from Westinghouse H840CK15 ($ 1, 295, or $ in today's dollars ) became available in the New York area on February 28, 1954 and is generally agreed to be the first production receiver using NTSC color offered to the public ; a less expensive color model from RCA ( RCA-CT100 ) reached dealers in April 1954.

In 1954 the Preservation Society agreed to start work on a formal museum and exhibits from around the United Kingdom were acquired to form the nucleus of the collection.

After an interview in which the Guinness directors enjoyed testing the twins ' knowledge of records and unusual facts, the brothers agreed to start work on the book that became The Guinness Book of Records in 1954.

After an interview in 1954 in which the Guinness directors enjoyed testing the twins ' knowledge of records and unusual facts, the brothers agreed to start work on the book that would become the Guinness Book of Records.

However, after the project for a European Defence Community failed in the French National Assembly in 1954, France agreed to West German accession to NATO and rearmament.

In 1954, the recording industry agreed upon a standard recording format for higher fidelity music, so any new record player could play any new record.

In a separate agreement signed by the Cambodian representative, the French and the Viet Minh agreed to withdraw all forces from Cambodian soil by October 1954.

In 1954, a group of men from local Christian Reformed Churches in Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota agreed to establish the college in Sioux Center.

Three years later, and with new government leadership under the popular Gamal Abdel Nasser, the UK agreed to withdraw its troops in the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement of 1954 ; the British withdrawal was completed in July 1956.

Improvements in Soviet technology rendered the Pinetree Line and Mid-Canada Line inadequate to provide enough early warning and on February 15, 1954, the Canadian and American governments agreed to jointly build a third line of radar stations ( Distant Early Warning ), this time running across the high Arctic.

" Reconsider Baby " came from a long term contract agreed with Chess Records in 1954.

The battalion remained in Egypt until late 1954, when it, and the rest of the 32nd Guards Brigade, departed after a Treaty was signed between the two countries, which agreed that British and Egyptian technicians would maintain the base, and that a gradual phase-out of British forces in Egypt would begin, with the last British forces leaving Egypt in June 1956.

On March 27, 1954, Karaga Naa Adam, Yo Naa Mahamuru, and Mion Lana Andani agreed to go to Tamale to formally launch a protest with the Chief Regional Officer against the enskinment of Ya Naa Abdulai.