* 1954 – Pat Travers, Canadian singer and musician

* 1954 – James Cameron, Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer

* 1954 – Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler

* 1954 – Lester Square, Canadian musician ( The Monochrome Set and Adam and the Ants )

* 1954 – Bob Rock, Canadian musician and producer ( The Payolas )

* 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.

* 1890 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician ( d. 1954 )

Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.

* 1954 – Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut

* 1954 – Bob Sirois, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1954 – Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

* 1954 – Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor

* 1954 – Eddie Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1954 – Denis Lebel, Canadian politician

* 1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician ( b. 1900 )

* 1934 – Emilie Dionne, Canadian quintuplet ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – John Tory, Canadian politician

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

* 1954 – Rejean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1954 – Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian writer

* 1954 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player

* August 21 – Winnifred Eaton, Canadian author ( d. 1954 )

* MV Chinook II, the car ferry MV Chinook after being transferred to Canadian registry in 1954 to operate between Nanaimo, British Columbia and Vancouver, British Columbia

Guy Gavriel Kay ( born November 7, 1954 ) is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction.

In response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the " Comics Code " in the same year.

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.

This held until 1954 when it was challenged by the government Monopolies Commission.

that the employment of communists within the government was a menace and would be a pivotal issue in the 1954 elections ; Ike was urged to respond directly and specify the various measures he had taken to purge the government of communists.

In 1954, when the United States dispatched the Military Assistance Advisory Group for West Pakistan, the East Pakistan Parliament signed a statement, which denounced Pakistan's government for signing a military pact with the United States.

Along with revitalization came many changes, including the closing of the Great Western sugar factory in 1955, and a new city charter, adopting a council-manager form of government in 1954.

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

A variety of factors contributed: social and economic injustice and racism against the indigenous population, the 1954 coup which reversed reforms, weak civilian control of the military, the United States support of the government, and Cuban support of the insurgents.

The business community and the government benefited from favorable economic conditions until Hurricane Hazel hit the island in 1954.

* In Indochina the French government was facing the Viet Minh communist rebels and lost its Indochinese colonies during the First Indochina War in 1954 after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

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

Amongst these measures included the universalization of old-age pensions for all Canadians aged seventy and above ( 1951 ), the introduction of old age assistance for needy Canadians aged sixty-five and above ( 1951 ), the introduction of allowances for the blind ( 1951 ) and the disabled ( 1954 ), amendments to the National Housing Act ( 1954 ) which provided federal government financing to non-profit organisations as well as the provinces for the renovation or construction of hostels or housing for students, the disabled, the elderly, and families on low incomes, and unemployment assistance ( 1956 ) for unemployed employables on welfare who had exhausted ( or did not qualify for ) unemployment insurance benefits.

The government also engaged in massive public works and infrastructure projects such as building the Trans-Canada Highway ( 1949 ), the St. Lawrence Seaway ( 1954 ) and the Trans-Canada Pipeline.

* 1954 – David Michaels, American professor and government official

In 1954, General Alfredo Stroessner took advantage of the strong link between the armed forces and the Colorado Party to overthrow the government ; he ruled until 1989.

In May 1954, Stroessner ordered his troops into action against the government after Chaves had tried to dismiss one of his subordinates.

By 1954 there were forty-two Qatari government employees.

However, it can also be noted that while retaining government on each occasion, Menzies lost the two-party-preferred vote in 1940, 1954, and 1961.

The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 () is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands acquired by the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

To diminish the differences between the two regions, the government decided to reorganize the country into two distinct provinces under the One Unit policy announced by Prime Minister Chaudhry Muhammad Ali on November 22, 1954.

Since 1947, the West-Pakistan had a parliamentary republic form of government, but on the other hand, the East-Pakistan was a socialist state since the 1954 elections.

The United States CIA orchestrated the overthrow of the Guatemalan government in 1954.