Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

*< cite id = refILE >" Improved Lunar Ephemeris ", US Government Printing Office, 1954 .</ cite >

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) notes that: " The international nautical mile of 1 852 meters ( 6 076. 115 49 ... feet ) was adopted effective July 1, 1954, for use in the United States.

The New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company ( NYHRMC ) produced US $ 60 million worth of gold and silver between 1882 and 1954 before discontinuing most of its operations.

In 2008, Albert Einstein's 1954 German letter in which he dismissed belief in a personal God was auctioned off for more than US $ 330, 000.

In the US, V-shaped, or short-and-sharp contractions followed by rapid and sustained recovery, occurred in 1954 and 1990 – 91 ; U-shaped ( prolonged slump ) in 1974 – 75, and W-shaped, or double-dip recessions in 1949 and 1980 – 82.

In terms of its wide cultural impact across society in the US and elsewhere, Bill Haley's " Rock Around the Clock ", recorded in April 1954 but not a commercial success until the following year, is generally recognized as an important milestone, but it was preceded by many recordings from earlier decades in which elements of rock and roll can be clearly discerned.

In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that public school segregation was unconstitutional.

Another theory suggests the submarine was brought to the US by Dominic Conti ( 1874 – 1954 ), an Italian immigrant who came to New York in the early 1900s.

** Brown v. Board of Education ( 347 US 483 1954 ): The United States Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are unconstitutional.

Lubin suggested Eastwood attend drama classes, and arranged for his initial contract in April 1954 at $ 100 ( US $ in dollars ) per week.

This had followed continued Southern resistance to desegregation following the 1954 US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.

In 1954, various acts were codified into Title 13 of the US Code.

Lenox products also became well known in the US thanks to Frank Graham Holmes, chief designer from 1905 to 1954, who won several artistic awards such as the 1927 Craftsmanship Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the 1943 silver medal of the American Designers Institute.

After the coastal attacks began, Hanoi lodged a complaint with the International Control Commission ( ICC ), which had been established in 1954 to oversee the terms of the Geneva Accords, but the US denied any involvement.

In Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), the US Supreme Court ruled that publicly supported schools had to be desegregated.

When the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347 US 483 ( 1954 ), Eastland, like most Southern Democrats, denounced it.

* Prince Valiant is a 1954 US motion picture by 20th Century Fox, filmed in color and Cinemascope.

** Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a fishing vessel exposed to radiation from a US nuclear test in 1954

The US Supreme Court 1954 school desegregation ruling and its impact in Kansas City, Missouri contributed to white flight throughout the region, resulting in increased migration from Kansas City, Missouri to the county and the furthering the county's reputation as a destination for quality public schools and as a good location for families.

In 1954, the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America moved its National Headquarters from New York City to a new site at the southwest corner of US Routes 1 and 130 in North Brunswick, New Jersey, although the location appeared in BSA publications as " New Brunswick ".

In 1972, the Little Rock School District, slow to comply to the 1954 US Supreme Court case Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, was forcibly ordered by federal courts to immediately desegregate the school district.

* Raymond T. Odierno ( born 1954 ), Lieutenant General, United States Army and Commander US III Corps.

* Ed Furgol, winner of 1954 US Open at Baltusrol, champion golfer who overcame an unbending left arm from a broken elbow at age 12

( Poster was later to found Coastal Federal Savings and Loan Association and use connections developed during his military service as a Dutch national in the US Army during World War II to help convince the US Government to declare that the damage done by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 should be covered by insurance.

The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma.

The great eleven volume Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum compiled between 1870 and 1954 is the definitive reference work for the study of British Satirical prints.

In the post-war era, the Justice Department launched Operation Wetback, under which 1, 075, 168 Mexicans were deported in 1954.

As the United States grew more concerned over the culmination of the Cold War, it made a concession in 1954 at the behest of its Department of State by backing the conception of the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ).

He has taught at Indiana University ( 1954 – 1963 ), the University of Kentucky ( 1963 – 1967 ), Washington State University ( 1967 – 1976 ), the University of New Mexico ( 1976 – 1980 ), the University of Miami ( 1981 – 1985 ), Syracuse University ( 1987 – 1994 ) and the University of Washington before taking his current position as professor of communication at Boston University's Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations.

In 1954, the United States Department of the Interior ( DOI ) began implementing the termination and relocation phases of the Act, which had been added by Congress and represented the continuing interest by some of having American Indians assimilate to the majority society.

According to the United States Department of the interior-Bureau of Land Management, in a letter from Mr William H. Richards, Director and Chief, Branch of Surveys, in his letter to Karl Starkweather dated April 29, 1954, he states that upon inspection of the tract books held by the Bureau: " Of interest to you personally are the notations of the CASH entries Nos.

* 1954 The Department of Defense chose Grand Forks as the site for a new installation.

In 1954, he became Director of the Trade Division of the Economic Affairs Department.

During the construction of the Seyhan Dam, Demirel worked as a project engineer and in 1954 was appointed Head of the Department of Dams.

In 1942 he was appointed Research Associate in Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and there subsequently became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry ( 1945 ), Professor of Pharmacology ( 1946 ), Professor of Biochemistry ( 1954 ), and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry.

In 1954, the world's first supercarrier was named in his honor, as is the headquarters of the United States Department of Energy.

The Police Department was formed in 1954 to assist the State Police in patrolling and responding to emergencies in the town during certain night hours.

* The Mechanical Engineering Department started in 1954 and presently offers both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees.

In 1954 Ibsen was elected Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology at that institution.

Between 1954 and 1956 he was research associate at the Department of Civil engineering at University of Iowa and obtained a masters.

There were economic and security reasons for developing a town in this region, but according to Shimon Landman, director of the Interior Ministry's Department of Minorities, the municipal elections in 1954, in which the Israel communist party Maki became the largest faction, were a source of concern.

He then lectured in radio astronomy at the Astronomy Department of the University of California, Berkeley from September 1954 to June 1955 at the invitation of Otto Struve, and at Stanford University during the summer of 1955, and joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Stanford in December 1955.

Lehmer was chairman of the Department of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley from 1954 until 1957.

After directing the Israeli Army Department of Electronics for several years, in 1954 he settled in Tel Aviv where he began to teach his method full-time.

Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Washington, D. C., 1954.

Ronald Paul Bucca ( May 6, 1954 – September 11, 2001 ) was a New York City Fire Department Marshal killed during the September 11 attacks.

In response to disease outbreaks in Mexico and Canada in 1954, the Army gave the island to the Agriculture Department to establish a research center dedicated to the study of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle.

Construction on Plum Island's new laboratory Building 101 began around July 1, 1954, around the same time that the Army's anti-animal bio-warfare ( BW ) facilities at Fort Terry were transferred to the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

In 1954 the parliamentary debate about the budget for the Department of Agriculture was postponed: the Minister was ice-skating the 200 kilometer long Elfstedentocht in the Dutch province of Friesland.