It was unveiled in late 1954, and taken, in January 1955, to UllswaterWestmorland in the English Lake District for its initial trials.

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 largest body of water in Denton County is Lewisville Lake, which was formed in 1954 when the Garza – Little Elm Reservoir was merged with Lake Dallas.

Mayor Roberts, a Democrat, has been a resident of Walled Lake since 1954.

Woodcliff Lake has a police department, located next to borough hall and the fire department, was founded in 1954.

In 1954, newly built Nesconset Highway created a major commercial crossroad in Lake Grove, which prompted the construction of the Smith Haven Mall in 1968, which made the local residents become concerned about the impact of new businesses and increased traffic in their community.

Sibley was created by Eddie and Edythe Hagglund beginning in 1954, when they observed the popularity of the nearby Lake Ashtabula and decided that a hamburger restaurant would be profitable.

* 1953 – Current campus near Lake Merced opens ; it is formally dedicated in October, 1954.

In 1954, Saranac Lake hosted the world premiere of the Biblical epic film The Silver Chalice, Paul Newman's film debut.

Lake Gladewater, constructed in 1954, provides recreation for city residents.

After studies at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, he received an AB from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Chicago in 1950, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology ( STB ) in 1952, and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology ( STL ) in 1954, when he was ordained.

Kingston is also home to the first co-op store in North America, which was closed when the Silver Lake Post Office shut down operations in 1954.

The Kelly Lake site was chosen in 1954 after an elaborate search for suitable location.

Craig Blacklock ( born 1954 ) is a nature photographer best known for his book The Lake Superior Images.

Lex Davison, who for several years would experiment with sports car engines in smaller Formula 2 chassis, took his first of four victories in a Jaguar engined Formula 2 HWM in 1954, while the previous year Whiteford won his third and final Grand Prix as for the first time racing cars thundered around the streets surrounding the Albert Park Lake in inner Melbourne.

Located at Yarramundi Reach on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, the Lindsay Pryor National Arboretum is a 30-hectare site originally planted by Professor Pryor between 1954 and 1957 to improve the view from Government House.

Various promotional schemes were tried: in 1954 the small town of Saranac Lake, New York ( home of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium ) won a nationwide competition selling Christmas Seals, the reward for which was hosting the world premiere of the Paul Newman film, The Silver Chalice ; the cast participated in a parade in the town's annual winter carnival.

On January 10, 1954, Thomas E. Braniff died when a flying boat owned by United Gas crash-landed on the shore of Wallace Lake, 15 miles outside of Shreveport, Louisiana due to icing.

During this time he presented a talk at the 1954 Conference of Activity Vector Analysts at Lake George, New York in which he discussed a theory of personality from the semantic point of view.

The Seattle-to-Everett Interurban streetcar reached the lake in 1906, and the Bitter Lake neighborhood was annexed by Seattle in 1954.

In 1954, Hurricane Hazel piled up water along the northwestern Lake Ontario shoreline near Toronto, causing extensive flooding, and established a seiche that subsequently caused flooding along the south shore.

On Lake Michigan, eight fishermen were swept away and drowned when a 10-foot seiche hit the Chicago waterfront on June 26, 1954.

South of Great Slave Lake, in a remote corner of Wood Buffalo National Park, is the nesting site of a remnant flock of Whooping Cranes, discovered in 1954.

The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma.

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.

The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

* 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.

* International Control Commission, which oversaw the 1954 Geneva Accords ending the First Indochina War

* 1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

Laos gained full independence following the French defeat by the Vietnamese communists and the subsequent Geneva peace conference in 1954.

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

Established in 1954, the organization is based in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco – Swiss border, () and has 20 European member states.

* Khmer Viet Minh Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference.

After the war, the 1954 Geneva conference failed to adopt a solution for a unified Korea.

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.

Advocating peaceful coexistence with the West after the stalemated Korean War, he participated in the 1954 Geneva Conference and helped orchestrate Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China.

Following the Geneva Accord of 1954, the Viet Minh became the government of North Vietnam, although the Bảo Đại government continued to rule in South Vietnam.

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.

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.

In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam.

Realising Diệm's popularity among American policymakers, he chose Diệm's youngest brother Ngô Đình Luyện, who was studying in Europe at the time, to be part of his delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference to determine the future of Indochina.

Under the 1954 Geneva Accords, Vietnam was to undergo elections in 1956 to reunify the country.

The terms South Vietnam and North Vietnam became common usage in 1954 at the time of the Geneva Conference, which partitioned Vietnam into Viet-Minh and French zones at the 17th parallel.

In 1954, France and the Việt Cong agreed at the Geneva Conference that the State of Vietnam would rule the territory south of the 17th parallel, pending unification on the basis of supervised elections in 1956.

Although the United States attended the Geneva Conference ( 1954 ), which was intended to end hostilities between France and the Vietnamese at the end of the First Indochina War, it refused to sign the Geneva Accords ( 1954 ).