She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

Kaye said in a 1954 interview, " Whatever she wants to be she will be without interference from her mother nor from me.

* 1954 – In Christchurch ( New Zealand ) Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother because they think she is in the way of their close friendship ( movie Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson in 1994 ).

She taught at The New School and Columbia University, where she was an adjunct professor from 1954 to 1978.

In The Divine King in England ( 1954 ) she expanded on her earlier claims there was a secret conspiracy of pagans amongst the English nobility, the same English nobility who provided the leading members of the Church.

X-ray crystallography of biological molecules took off with Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who solved the structures of cholesterol ( 1937 ), vitamin B12 ( 1945 ) and penicillin ( 1954 ), for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

Cyrus L. Day relates that, " she had never seen it in Finland, she wrote to me in 1954, but had learned about it from a Spaniard named Raphael Gaston, who called it a whip knot, and told her it was used in the mountains of Spain by muleteers and herdsmen.

In October 1953, with the release of Mogambo, she became a movie star, a status confirmed in 1954 with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination as well as leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, in which she gave a deglamorized, Academy Award-winning performance.

Although Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performances in her three big movie roles of 1954 ( Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, and The Country Girl ), she and Garland both received Golden Globe Awards for their respective performances.

* Colette ( Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette ) ( 1873 – 1954 ), although she was not from Provence, became particularly attached to Saint-Tropez.

In France, she worked with Jean Renoir in the successful film French Cancan ( 1954 ) with Jean Gabin and in Les Heros sont Fatigues ( 1955 ) with Yves Montand.

In 1954, when she was six, Newton-John's family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, where her father worked as a professor of German and as Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne.

In 1954, she became a lecturer in literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

During this time she began acting for CBS ' popular Lux Radio Theater, making 22 appearances between 1935 and 1954.

In 1954, after a successful appearance in a television version of The Royal Family, she began acting in various teleplays.

From 1954 to 1960, she appeared in the television adaptations of Blithe Spirit in 1956 and The Bells of St. Mary's in 1959.

In 1954, she starred, along with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Vera-Ellen, in the movie White Christmas.

In 1954 Jurado replaced Dolores del Río in the film Broken Lance, for which she received an Academy Award nomination, playing Spencer Tracy's Comanche wife and the mother of Robert Wagner's character.

During the debutante season of 1954, she was presented to the Queen.

* Truus van Aalten ( Arnhem, 2 August 1910-Warmond, 27 June 1999 ) actress, she ran a souvenir import / export business in Voorhout after 1954, after the Nazis ended her career as a film comedienne in Germany.

* Lynn Forester de Rothschild ( born 1954 ), Chief Executive Officer of E. L. Rothschild, a holding company she owns with her husband Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild.

With the aid of matching federal funds available under Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954 as amended, the planning division began a one year program July 1, 1960 to complete the inventory phase of the state planning program.

In 1954 Brazil began manufacturing its first semi-automatic pistols.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

Actual shooting began in October 1954 at the Ted Allan Studios, but further money problems quickly halted the production.

Deployment overseas began in 1954, first to West Germany and later to the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and South Korea.

By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.

There were localized flare-ups when the Red Army began shelling the islands of Quemoy and Matsu in September 1954.

He began, however, getting more involved in live action films, producing classics like 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1954 ), and Old Yeller ( 1957 ).

In 1954, GP began with the evolutionary algorithms first used by Nils Aall Barricelli applied to evolutionary simulations.

In 1954 Holden began exporting the FJ to New Zealand.

In 1954 while attending Northwestern High School, he began working for WTOP-TV, creating puppets for a Saturday morning children's show called The Junior Morning Show.

* 1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory ( the battle began on March 13 ).

* 1962 – The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.

In October 1954, Meher Baba discarded his alphabet board and began using a unique set of hand gestures to communicate.

The service began operating in Palm Springs, California on November 27, 1953, but due to pressure from the FCC, the service ended on May 15, 1954.

By 1954 an estimated 2, 500 Soviet naval advisers were in China — possibly one adviser to every thirty Chinese naval personnel — and the Soviet Union began providing modern ships.

By 1954, as rock and roll was beginning to emerge, a number of similar acts began to cross over from the R & B charts to mainstream success, often with added honking brass and saxophone, with The Crows, The Penguins, The El Dorados and The Turbans all scoring major hits.

The tradition of using the semantic domain of color names as an object for investigation of linguistic relativity began with Lenneberg and Roberts ' 1953 study of Zuni color terms and color memory, and Brown and Lenneberg's 1954 study of English color terms and color memory.

Stockcar racing began in New Zealand during the 1950s, first race was at Aranui Speedway on November 27, 1954.

Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.

Ditko began professionally illustrating comic books in early 1953, drawing writer Bruce Hamilton's science-fiction story " Stretching Things " for the Key Publications imprint Stanmor Publications, which sold the story to Ajax / Farrell, where it finally found publication in Fantastic Fears # 5 ( cover-dated Feb. 1954 ).

Vegemite's rise to popularity was helped by the marketing campaigns written by J. Walter Thompson advertising that began in 1954, using groups of smiling, attractive healthy children singing a catchy jingle entitled " We're happy little Vegemites ".

In 1951, the German engineer Felix Wankel began development of the engine at NSU Motorenwerke AG, where he first conceived his rotary engine in 1954 ( DKM 54, Drehkolbenmotor ).

In 1951, Libya became the first African country to gain independence in the decade, and in 1954 the Algerian War began.

Lee began training in Wing Chun at the age of 13 under the Wing Chun teacher Yip Man in 1954, after losing a fight with rival gang members.