* 1954 – Steve Steen, English actor

* 1954 – Steve Forbert, American singer-songwriter

* 1954 – Steve Barton, American actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1954 – Steve LaTourette, American politician

* 1954 – Steve Morse, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple, Living Loud, Angelfire, Kansas, and Flying Colors )

* 1954 – Steve O ' Donnell, American playwright and author

* 1954 – Steve Dahl, American radio personality

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

* 1954 – Steve Kilbey, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( The Church and Jack Frost )

Stephen Philip " Steve " Bracks AC ( born 15 October 1954 ) is a former Australian politician and the 44th Premier of Victoria.

Although originally released to vinyl at a running time of 2 minutes and 8 seconds, most digital / CD releases of the original 1954 recording, starting with the " From The Original Master Tapes " compilation of Bill's work with Decca Records, mastered by Steve Hoffman and released in 1985, clock in at 2: 10.

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.

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

* Steve Baines ( born 1954 )-League footballer and referee

* Steve Clark ( 1891 – 1954 ), actor

After the 15-month run of Broadway Open House, Weaver further developed his ideas on a local show over NBC's New York station starring Steve Allen, which eventually took to the network in 1954 as The Tonight Show.

Steven Michael " Steve " Largent ( born September 28, 1954 ) is a retired American football player, enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a former U. S. Congressman, having served in the U. S. House of Representatives for Oklahoma from 1994 until 2002.

He appeared in more than 200 films, including The Big Trail ( 1930 ), with John Wayne ; The Scarlet Letter ( 1934 ), with Colleen Moore ; Sitting Bull ( 1954 ), as Crazy Horse ; The Light in the Forest ( 1958 ) as Cuyloga ; " The Great Sioux Massacre " ( 1965 ), with Joseph Cotten ; Nevada Smith ( 1966 ), with Steve McQueen ; A Man Called Horse ( 1970 ), with Richard Harris ; and Ernest Goes to Camp ( 1987 ), as Chief St.

Steve Forbert ( born Samuel Stephen Forbert, December 13, 1954 ) is an American pop music singer-songwriter.

* Steve Bullock ( born 1954 ), British mayor

Steve Rodby ( born December 9, 1954 in Joliet, Illinois ) is an American bassist.

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* Steve Smith ( musician ) ( born 1954 ), U. S. jazz and rock drummer

Gayle Sierens ( born 1954 ) is a news anchor on WFLA-TV.

Gayle King ( born December 28, 1954 ) is a co-anchor of CBS This Morning and an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine.

Henson would remain at WRC for seven years from 1954 to 1961.

The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson starting in 1954 – 55.

Martin P. Robinson ( born March 9, 1954 ) is a puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company.

The first telephone exchange opened in 1953, the first desalination plant in 1954, and the first power plant in 1957.

In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on members of Congress from the visitors ' gallery.

* March 7 – The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV with its original cast, as an installment of Producers ' Showcase.

Dial M for Murder opened in theaters in May 1954 to both positive reviews and box-office triumph.

* Matthew Arnold School, properly opened in 1954, though partially completed premises were also in emergency use during World War II

The new airport — named Ferryfield — opened on 14 July 1954, after six months ' work costing £ 400, 000.

Still later, a lease on the Adelphi Theatre on 54th Street and the Ambassador Theatre on West 49th Street gave the network a site for variety shows, and in 1954, the lavish DuMont Tele-Centre opened in the former Jacob Ruppert's Central Opera House at 205 East 67th Street.

The original 600 works in the permanent collection grew to about 1, 300 by 1954 when the second Museum building opened, and to approximately 2, 000 with the opening of the Breuer building in 1966.

In 1954 the original span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was opened, replacing earlier ferry service.

The need also arose for Northridge to accommodate the new population, so in 1954 the first middle school opened in the rapidly growing town.

It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and a film adaptation was released in 1954.

* Kidbrooke School — opened in 1954 ; the first purpose-built comprehensive school in Britain

It opened at the Theatre de Lys in Greenwich Village on October 18, 1954, and ran for 48 performances.

* Camp Ludington is in Holmes, New York and was opened in 1954.

Hobie Alter opened one of the first retail surf shops in Dana Point in 1954.

Other golf resorts are the Tamarisk, Mission Hills, the Springs, Sunrise, KSL Resorts ' Rancho Las Palmas hotel ( opened in 1979 to replace the Desert Air golf and private airport from 1954 – 1978 ), Rancho Mirage, Morningside, Mission Hills North Course, Westin Hotels Mission Hills resort, and Tuscania by Sunrise Company opened in 2006.

Northland Center, one of the first shopping malls in the nation, opened in Southfield in 1954.

A post office opened July 14, 1871, and operated until February 28, 1954.

Bentley was one of the five congressmen injured on the floor of the U. S. House of Representatives on March 1, 1954, when Puerto Rican nationalist terrorists opened fire from the gallery.

Holy Trinity School opened on September 7, 1954 with an enrollment of 243 students.

Almost eight years later in 1954, SJV school ( originally named Providence School ) opened its doors with 109 students in grades one through four.

A second elementary school, Benton School, named after the Missouri senator, Thomas Hart Benton, opened in 1908 and operated until 1954.

Ralston High School opened in 1954, it was first placed on Lakeview Drive, but then relocated to its current address on 8969 Park Drive.

In 1954, Story Land, a theme park designed for young children, opened in Glen.