The Irwin Union Bank building was built in 1954.

The Irwin Union Bank building in Columbus, Indiana, was built in 1954.

Barney William Irwin ( born September 17, 1954 ) is a professional wrestler best known as Bill Irwin.

* Mikes, George, Eight Humorists ( 1954 ) Allen Wingate, ( 1977 ) Arden Library

Linebarger was long rumored to have been the original for " Kirk Allen ," the fantasy-haunted subject of " The Jet-Propelled Couch ," a chapter in psychologist Robert M. Lindner's best-selling 1954 collection, The Fifty-Minute Hour.

* 1890 – Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian ( d. 1954 )

The first practical application of superconductivity was developed in 1954 with Dudley Allen Buck's invention of the cryotron.

* 1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen ( The Tonight Show ) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.

* Joseph A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis ( George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954 ).

Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers ; recipients of which include Camilla Williams ( 1943, 1944 ), Nathaniel Dickerson ( 1944 ), Louise Parker ( 1944 ), Rawn Spearman ( 1949 ), Georgia Laster ( 1951 ), Betty Allen ( 1952 ), Shirlee Emmons ( 1953 ), Judith Raskin ( 1952, 1953 ), Miriam Holman ( 1954 ), Shirley Verrett ( 1957 ), and Joyce Mathis ( 1967 ).

* Allen Alley ( 1954 – ), Founder of Pixelworks, Republican nominee for Oregon State Treasurer in 2008, Republican candidate for Oregon Governor in 2010

Steve Allen was the first host of The Tonight Show, which began as a local New York show, being picked up by the NBC network in 1954.

* Beat poet Allen Ginsberg described a visit to the place in his 1954 poem ' Sieste in Xbalba '.

Allen Bares, who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from 1972 to 1992, was born in Vermilion Parish and graduated from Erath High School in 1954.

* 1954: Gray Beck, Richard Thompson, Albert Losvar, Fred Allen, Henry Brown

Allen Ginsberg had visited Neal and Carolyn Cassady in San Jose, California in 1954 and moved on to San Francisco in August.

early drafts of Howl being read by Allen to his fellow writing associates date from late 1954.

* The Tonight Show ( Steve Allen, 1954 – 1957 ; Jack Paar, 1957 – 1962 ).

From 1954 until the club ceased its jazz policy in 1965, Allen led the house band at New York's Metropole Cafe.

As Allen Dulles later stated, CIA planners believed that once the troops were on the ground, any action required for success would be authorized to prevent failure, as Eisenhower had done in Guatemala in 1954 after the invasion looked as if it was collapsing.

In 1954, CBC Radio presented an adaptation of the trilogy by Andrew Allen, who combined 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI into a one hundred and sixty minute episode.

In 1954, CBC Radio presented an adaptation of the trilogy by Andrew Allen, who combined 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI into a one hundred and sixty minute episode.

In 1954, CBC Radio presented an adaptation of the trilogy by Andrew Allen, who combined 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI into a one hundred and sixty-minute episode.

* West Norway and its Fjords by Frank Noel Stagg, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954.

* Mark van Allen ( born 1954 ), American musician

* Mikes, George, Eight Humorists ( 1954 ) Allen Wingate, ( 1977 ) Arden Library

After playing with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League and in the minor leagues, Aaron started his major league career in 1954.

The comic strip Moomintroll, started in 1954 in the Evening News, a newspaper for the London area and London commuters ( no longer in business ).

On September 3, 1954, the First Taiwan Strait Crisis began when the PLA started shelling Quemoy and threatened to take the Dachen Islands.

In 1954, the Soviet Union started mass production of PPD-L, named after Linnikova.

After graduating in 1954, Janmaat started a study in aeronautical engineering, but had to drop out two years later after his father could no longer afford the tuition fees.

Buck started broadcasting Cardinals games for KMOX radio in 1954, teaming with Harry Caray, Milo Hamilton ( 1954 ), and Joe Garagiola ( from 1955 ).

Development started on the Model 1-G in 1947, though it did not fly until 1954.

Effectively started by members of the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) on November 1, 1954, during the Toussaint Rouge (" Red All Saints ' Day "), the conflict shook the foundations of the French Fourth Republic ( 1946 – 58 ) and led to its eventual collapse.

On September 8, 1954, Bell started her swim across Lake Ontario from Queens Beach Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario to Toronto at virtually the same time as world famous United States long-distance swimmer, Florence Chadwick.

The Hahn Post Office started sometime in 1895 and existed until January 31, 1954.

The canal was started in 1954, is 1, 375 km in length, and carries 13-20 km³ of water annually.

In April 1954, he started late-night talk show The Ernie Kovacs Show on DuMont Television Network's New York flagship station, WABD.

The Evangelical Covenant Church later started a boarding high school in 1954.

So in 1954 construction started on a new storm surge barrier, the first installation of the Delta Works.

The Hillsdale Volunteer Ambulance Service was started on January 5, 1954.

Decca started recording in stereo on 14 – 28 May 1954, in Victoria Hall in Geneva, the first European record company to do so, only three months after RCA Victor began recording in stereo in the U. S. Decca archives show that Ernest Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande recorded Tamara by Mily Balakirev ; the overture to Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz ; Stenka Razin by Alexander Glazunov ; and Anatoly Liadov's Baba-Yaga, Eight Russian Folksongs, and Kikimora.

In the late 1940s ADC started a project to build a much more advanced interceptor under the 1954 interceptor effort, which eventually delivered the F-106 Delta Dart after a lengthy development process.

He started his Oklahoma career in 1954 on Tulsa's ABC affiliate television station, KTUL.

He started in television at its inception in 1954 working as an actor, writer and director.

Although the first national colorcast ( the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade ) occurred on January 1, 1954, it was not until the late 1960s that color sets started selling in large numbers, due in some part to the color transition of 1965 in which over half of all network prime-time programming would be broadcast in color that fall, and the introduction of GE's Porta-Color set in the Spring of 1966 which would bring the first all-color primetime season beginning that fall.

Deek Watson who had been forced out of the original Ink Spots in 1944 and briefly sang with Charlie Fuqua's Ink Spots in 1952-1953, started his own Ink Spots group in 1954.

The National Veterans Award, created in 1954, also started in Birmingham, Alabama.

After Phillips discovered Elvis Presley in 1954, the Sun label turned to the rapidly expanding white audience and started recording mostly rock ' n ' roll.