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.

* 1954 – UEFA ( Union of European Football Associations ) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.

In 1954 Lyons formed LEO Computers Ltd to market LEO I and its successors LEO II and LEO III to other companies.

In 1954, with the decision to proceed with LEO II and interest from other commercial companies, Lyons formed LEO Computers Ltd.

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.

The oldest still existing club, Club Cosmos in Gothenburg, was formed in 1954, and the first Swedish science fiction convention, LunCon, was held in Lund in 1956.

In 1954, Feldman formed a writing partnership with Barry Took.

* In 1954, the Thai Border Patrol Police formed the Volunteer Defense Corps ( also called the Village Scouts ) to provide law and order and emergency or natural disaster response.

The PAP was formed in 1954 by predominantly English-educated middle-class professional men who had returned from their university education in the United Kingdom

After a French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Western Tonkin in 1954, the communist state of North Vietnam was formed, consisting of Tonkin and northern Annam.

The International Association of Botanic Gardens was formed in 1954 as a worldwide organisation affiliated to the International Union of Biological Sciences.

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.

By 1954, several Aircraft Control and Warning ( Radar ) squadrons had been formed at the base.

These two cameras, together with the Superwide Camera ( SWC ) which was introduced in 1954 as a wide angle camera using the excellent Carl Zeiss Biogon 38mm f / 4. 5 lens and built-in levels for exacting architecture photography, formed the core of the V-system and shared most accessories ( with a few exceptions ).

However in 1954 a second inter-party Government was formed.

The following year, he, along with Tommy DeVito, formed the Variatones ( with Hank Majewski, rhythm guitar, Frank Cattone, accordion, and Billy Thompson, drums ), which between 1954 and 1956, performed and recorded under a variety of names before settling on the name The Four Lovers.

The quartet formed in 1954 and began touring the gospel night circuit with their parents as their background musicians.

Sister Sledge is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 1971 and consisting of four sisters: Kim Sledge ( born August 21, 1957 ), Debbie Sledge ( born July 9, 1954 ), Joni Sledge ( born September 13, 1955 ), and Kathy Sledge ( born January 6, 1959 ).

In 1954, after some experimentation by CSIRO and based on previous successful rice crops, a joint Australia-U. S. company called Territory Rice Ltd. was formed with a plan to irrigate the subcoastal plain of the Adelaide River in order to commercially produce rice.

Between 1950 and 1954, the PUP, formed upon the dissolution of the People's Committee on 29 September 1950, consolidated its organisation, established its popular base, and articulated its primary demands.

American Motors Corporation ( AMC ) was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company.

In 1954, American Motors Corporation ( AMC ) was formed from the merger of Nash-Kelvinator and the Hudson Motor Car Company.

* 1954 – During the Great Showa Merger the cities of Tosu, Imari, Takeo, Kashima and Taku are formed.

Shortly after the 1954 election, a new party, the Asante-based National Liberation Movement ( NLM ), was formed.

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

Two years later, the pared down quintet --- Lucius left in 1954 --- signed with the Chess brothers ' Checker label and released a doo-wop single, " Darling I Know ", that flopped.

Buddy Bailey was discharged from the Army in May 1954, and rejoined the group, making them a quintet.

The remainder is the result of two sessions on 19 May, 1953 and March 15, 1954, the first being a quintet with John Lewis, Charles Mingus ( on piano, not bass ), Percy Heath and Max Roach, and the second a quartet with Horace Silver, Heath and Art Blakey.

He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ) and Giant ( 1956 ).

The success of the quartet led to a Time magazine piece on them in 1954, with the famous cover featuring Brubeck's face.

The Comets, featuring musicians who performed with Haley in 1954 – 1955, reunited in 1987 and are still touring the world as of 2007, playing showrooms in the United States and Europe.

After the network sustained the program during its first two years, the sponsor became Roma Wines ( 1944 – 1947 ), and then ( after another brief period of sustained hour-long episodes, initially featuring Robert Montgomery as host and " producer " in early 1948 ), Autolite Spark Plugs ( 1948 – 1954 ); eventually Harlow Wilcox ( of Fibber McGee and Molly ) became the pitchman.

* The Alternate Asimovs, a collection of drafts featuring the 1954 story.

The June 1954 issue of If, featuring a wraparound cover by Ken Fagg, titled " Lava Falls on Mercury "

A film, Rock From the Bottom, featuring the 1954 graduation class of Sulzberger Middle School, which included Burke, should be finished by the end of 2011.

* The Mary Lou Williams Quartet featuring Don Byas ( 1954 )

Your Show of Shows is a live 90-minute variety show that appeared weekly in the United States on NBC ( Saturdays, 9: 00-10: 30 p. m. Eastern Time ), from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.

He wrote World's Finest Comics # 71 ( July 1954 ), the issue which began featuring Superman and Batman in the same story together.

The first program featuring the use of pilottone was the documentary Musuri-Es geht aufwärts am Kongo (" Musuri: Upstream / progress at the Congo "), shot in early 1954 in Africa and first broadcasted on ARD on March 31, 1954.

* Fearless Fosdick, composed by Bill Holman, was recorded live in 1954 by Vic Lewis and his Orchestra, featuring Tubby Hayes.

This was followed by " I Gopher You " in 1954, featuring the Gophers in their first cartoon without the dog, attempting to retrieve their vegetables from a food processing plant ; " Pests for Guests " in 1955, which has the gophers counter-antagonize the helpless Elmer Fudd when he buys a chest of drawers that they found appropriate for nut storage ; and " Lumber Jerks " later that year, where the Gophers visit a saw mill in an attempt to retrieve their stolen tree home.

After football, its next venture was into ice hockey, with a 1954 set featuring players from the four National Hockey League franchises located in the U. S. at the time — Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers.

Inauguration, which was created in 1954, was a 38 minute surrealist work featuring many Crowleyan and Thelemite themes, with many of the various characters personifying various pagan gods such as Isis, Osiris and Pan.

The Racquet & Tennis Club made a video ( 1954 ) featuring Etchebaster, Ogden Phipps, Francis X. Shields, and Alastair B. Martin, playing singles and doubles.

The club's longest cup run came when they reached the FA Cup semi-final in the 1954 – 55 season, a campaign in which Arthur Bottom scored eight goals, and the team eliminated a Blackpool side, featuring Stanley Matthews, who had won the competition eighteen months earlier.

The Desperate Dan books, featuring the comic book character Desperate Dan, were published in 1954, 1978, 1990, 1991 and 1992.

Explorers on the Moon, published in 1954, is the seventeenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero.

These include a complete half-hour show from August 17, 1954 featuring guest Don Cornell ; a complete one-hour show from late 1950 featuring guests The DeMarco Sisters plus Andy and Della Russell ; a segment from September 27, 1956 in which The Platters perform " You'll Never Know " and Andy Williams sings " Canadian Sunset ;" and a segment from August 5, 1957 in which celebrities Jack E. Leonard, Bert Lahr, Paul Winchell, and June Havoc compete in a dance contest.

The 1974 Imperial was the first regular American passenger car to offer 4-wheel disc brakes since the 1949 – 1954 Chrysler Imperials, the 1950 – 1952 Crosleys and the Chevrolet Corvettes that starting featuring them in 1965.

In 1954, the 520 was replaced by the 560 and 560A featuring a larger cabin and more powerful Lycoming piston engines.