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.

Since 1954 when an organ instrumental of " New Britain " became a bestseller, " Amazing Grace " has been associated with funerals and memorial services.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

On June 6, 1954, Seventh Avenue became southbound and Eighth Avenue became northbound south of Broadway.

In August 1954, " Blues " leader LCDR Ray Hawkins became the first naval aviator to survive an ejection at supersonic speeds when his F9F-6 became uncontrollable on a cross-country flight.

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.

As the 1954 congressional elections approached, and it became evident that the Republicans were in danger of losing their thin majority in both houses, Eisenhower was among those blaming the Old Guard for the losses, and took up the charge to stop suspected efforts by the right wing to take control of the GOP.

In American law, particularly after Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), the difference between de facto segregation ( segregation that existed because of the voluntary associations and neighborhoods ) and de jure segregation ( segregation that existed because of local laws that mandated the segregation ), became important distinctions for court-mandated remedial purposes.

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.

In 1954 he became leader of the Husserl-Archives.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

In 1954 a military government replaced Arbenz ' government and disbanded the legislature and they arrested communist leaders, Castillo Armas became president.

Moving to London in 1945, following the repeal of the Witchcraft Act of 1736 he became intent on propagating this religion, attracting media attention and writing about it in High Magic's Aid ( 1949 ), Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

He passed his second state examination in law in Hamburg in 1954 and became a solicitor in Bremen.

In July 1953, Hoxha handed over the foreign affairs and defense portfolios to loyal followers, but he kept both the top party post and the premiership until 1954, when Shehu became Albania's prime minister.

The term became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954.

Martin's diminished participation became an embarrassment in 1954 when Look magazine used a publicity photo of the team for the magazine cover but cropped Martin out of the photo.

The council of ministers became the principal instrument of government in 1954.

Laika (, literally meaning " Barker "; c. 1954 – November 3, 1957 ) was a Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth – as well as the first animal to die in orbit.

In 1954, he became the mazkir ( director ) of Greater New York City ’ s sixteen Bnei Akiva chapters.

On 1 October 1954, the colony became the autonomous Federation of Nigeria.

Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.

In 1954, as the term of the first National Assembly were about to expire, the Judicial Yuan ruled that the expired seats of the National Assembly would continue in power until the respective delegate region elections could be held.

He also served in several positions in education, including as a member board of governors of West Virginia University ( 1937 – 1944 ), a member of Wood County School Board ( 1950 – 1956 ), a delegate to White House Conference on Education ( 1954 ), president of the West Virginia School Board Association ( 1954 ), and a member of the National Citizens Committee on Higher Education ( 1955 ).

He had particular interest in international affairs resulted in his selection as an Australian representative to the 1946 Paris Peace conference, a delegate to the International Labor conference in Montreal, and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nairobi, Kenya in 1954.

He had been Ohio Republican state chair ( 1954 – 1965 ) and was a delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio in 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1972.

From 1949 to 1954, Zaisser served as a representative in the Volkskammer and in 1950 worked on military and tactical issues at the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Institute, a facility to which very few non-Soviets had access.

Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperanto was recommended by the French Academy of Sciences in 1921 and recognized in 1954 by UNESCO ( which later, in 1985, also recommended it to its member states ).

* 1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.

* 1890 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian politician, first female member of the Canadian House of Commons ( d. 1954 )

In a series of articles published between 1949 and 1954, he argued that Westermann's ' West Sudanic ' and Bantu formed a single genetic family, which he named Niger – Congo ; that Bantu constituted a subgroup of the Benue – Congo branch ; that Adamawa – Eastern, previously not considered to be related, was another member of this family ; and that Fula belonged to the West Atlantic languages.

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

In 1954, he became a full member of the Politburo and eventually rose to occupy the second-highest position in the party hierarchy.

* Byron Cook ( born April 8, 1954 ), Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives

Haley hired several new musicians to take their place: Rudy Pompilli on sax, Al Rex ( a former member of the Saddlemen ) on double bass, and Ralph Jones on drums ; in addition, lead guitarist Franny Beecher, who had been a session musician for Haley since Cedrone's death in the fall of 1954, became a full-time Comet and Haley's first performing lead guitarist.

On June 2, 2006, Johnny Grande, keyboardist with the 1954 – 55 Comets and an original founding member of the band, died after a short illness.

Bradman retired from his stockbroking business in June 1954, depending on the " comfortable " income earned as a board member of 16 publicly listed companies.

* David Thompson ( basketball ) ( born 1954 ), member of the Basketball Hall of Fame

He later graduated from Princeton University with a history degree in 1954, where he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club, the Eating Club Tiger Inn, and served in the U. S. Navy before becoming an actor.

) Following the U. S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, one city school board member pushed to allow black students to attend Falls Church City schools ( they attended Fairfax County schools, with the city paying tuition to the county ), but others delayed, and the state government's " Massive Resistance " laws ( known as the Stanley plan ) prevented desegregation of any schools.

* José Hoebee ( 1954 )-Pop singer and member of girl group Luv '

* Nelson Albano ( born 1954 ), member of the New Jersey General Assembly who represents the 1st legislative district.

* Bernard Cicirelli ( born 1932 ), In 1954 became the first St. Peter's College basketball player honored as a member of the College All-American Basketball team.

* Billy Joe Patton, amateur golfer who almost won the 1954 Masters Tournament, member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

Anderson played defense for the University of Minnesota from 1951 to 1954, and was a member of the U. S. hockey team that won a silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics.

He formally became a cabinet member in 1954 when he was appointed Minister for External Affairs.

He was a member of the Fabian Society executive from 1954 until 1961.

The group was now a quintet, with the fifth member being tenor Sonny Gordon, who had been the lead of the Angels in 1954.

Since 1951, Willoch was a member of the Oslo city council, and in 1954 he became a deputy in the Parliament of Norway.

While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.

In recognition of this was made a member of the Privy Council in 1954, only after the 1954 general election Holland made him the first person to be formally appointed Deputy Prime Minister.