In 1954 fossilised Homo erectus bones were discovered by C. Arambourg at Ternefine that are 700, 000 years old.

* 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

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.

At one time Parma had a regular train station, but service was discontinued in 1954, and the old train station building was torn down.

In 1954, at age 42, he married Nanette Bearden, a 27 year old dancer who herself became an artist and critic.

In old age, although John had ceased to be a moving force in British art, he was still greatly revered, as was demonstrated by the huge show of his work mounted by the Royal Academy in 1954.

In 1954 a larger gallery was built on East Main Street, and an Art Guild established a gallery in the old Minor House on Van Buren Street.

Although most classes have been held in the " new " Balmville School since 1954, some classes had been held in the " old " building as late as the mid-1970s, and it had been used for offices and other administrative purposes up to the mid-1980s.

This same episode reveals that boys entering the Order are 12 years old, which would give Hank a birth date of sometime in 1954 or 1955.

Another round of repairs, led by Nikolay Sobolev in 1954 – 55, restored original paint imitating brickwork, and allowed restorators to actually dig inside old masonry, revealing the wooden frame inside it.

The earliest Klemperer performance on tape was recorded in concert in Köln in 1954 ( when he was 69 years old ); the last was in London with the New Philharmonia Orchestra in 1970 ( when he was 85 ).

The old terminal was built in 1954.

Vaughan was the birthplace of professional baseball player Laurin Pepper on January 18, 1931. Pepper was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 4, 1954, with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

On July 5, 1954, John Correll, his seven year old son, died of what appeared to be an accidental poisoning.

DJ Hollywood ( born December 10, 1954 ) is an American old school hip hop DJ and rapper.

Her mother, Diane Wuornos ( born 1939 ), was 15 years old when she married Aileen's father, Leo Dale Pittman ( died 1969 ), on June 3, 1954.

He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) which is about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy ( Farley Granger ) and Bruno ( Robert Walker ) who staged a battle of wits and traded murders with each other, Dial M For Murder ( 1954 ) with Ray Milland as a villainous husband who attempts to murder his wealthy wife ( Grace Kelly ), Rear Window ( 1954 ) which is about man ( James Stewart ) being convinced that his neighbour is a killer, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), a lightweight thriller set in South of France, Vertigo ( 1958 ), with James Stewart as a retired police detective who becomes obsessed with the disturbed enigmatic ' wife ' ( Kim Novak ) of an old friend, and North by Northwest in which an advertising executive ( Cary Grant ) is mistaken for a non-existent spy and chased across the country while aided by a mysterious woman ( Eva Marie Saint ).

Mark portrays the 1950s rock-a-billy era complete with exact replicas of all of Elvis ' performance guitars and stage clothes from 1954 to 1958, as well as old 1950s RCA microphones and even a full-size Nipper dog statue on-stage ( Mark is the only impersonator that uses RCA's Nipper ).

After the old one was destroyed during Hurricane Hazel in 1954, a new footbridge was built in 1995 to span the Humber, between Lions and Raymore Park.

The Outback Bowl is not Tampa's first bowl game, as the Cigar Bowl was played at old Phillips Field near downtown from 1947 – 1954.

In 1954 a decision was forced upon heralds, whether to abandon the old building ( which would have been profitable financially ) or repair it on a scale far beyond the College's resources.

Pazder eventually used hypnosis to help Smith recover memories of alleged satanic ritual abuse that allegedly occurred in 1954 and 1955 when Smith was five years old at the hands of her mother ( Virginia Proby ) and others, all of whom were members of a Satanic cult in Victoria.

Near the old town, an Alemannic burial place was excavated in 1954 – 1957, dating from the 5th century.

* John Butler ( born 1954 ), member of the English alternative rock band Diesel Park West

Postcard illustrating the allure of streamliner travel to Florida, along with the " citrus " paint scheme used on SAL's Electro-Motive Diesel | EMD diesel locomotive s from 1939 to 1954.

The EMD FP9 was a, B-B dual-service passenger and freight-hauling diesel locomotive produced between February 1954 and December 1959 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, and General Motors Diesel.

An EMD SW8 is a diesel shunting / switching locomotive manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel between September 1950 and February 1954.

The EMD GP7 is a four-axle road switcher diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel between October, 1949 and May 1954.

An EMD GP9 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors ' Electro-Motive Division in the United States, and General Motors Diesel in Canada between January, 1954, and August, 1963.

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 1954 the company developed the classic Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine, which would remain in production until 1995.

* 1954 – Felix Wankel creates the first working Wankel engine.

In 1954 FIAT unveiled a racing car with a turbine engine called La Turbina.

While the 1953 and 1954 models were heavily re-worked versions of the 1949-52 Chieftain models, they were engineered to accommodate the V-8 engine that would appear in the all-new 1955 models.

To power the CF-105 Arrow supersonic interceptor, Orenda developed the PS. 13 Iroquois engine between 1953 and 1954.

In 1954 the Canadian government decided to sell the plant and Avro Canada agreed to purchase it to maintain production of the Orenda and Iroquois engines. The company employed over 400 in the production of precision forgings, blades, jet engine components, close-tolerance forging, and operation of aluminum and magnesium foundries.

Lateral view of a two-stroke Forty series British Seagull outboard engine, the serial number dates it to 1954 / 1955.

The Vega production cars ( Facel FV, later and more famously the HK500 ) appeared in 1954 using Chrysler V8 engines, at first a DeSoto Hemi engine ; the overall engineering was straightforward, with a tubular chassis, double wishbone suspension at the front and a solid driven axle at the back, as in standard American practice.

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In 1949, a swept-wing version, the F-84F Thunderstreak, was developed but additional development and engine problems resulted in the aircraft not entering service until 1954.

In 1954 Chyrsler started its decade long unsuccessful attempt to develop and market a viable car powered by turbine engine when it installed an experimental turbine they had developed specifically for vehicles in a Plymouth.

Fleming had flown to the US in August 1954 to research the background to Diamonds Are Forever ; his friend Ernest Cuneo introduced him to a rich socialite, William Woodward, Jr., who drove a Studillac — a Studebaker with a powerful Cadillac engine.

The concept was for a two-passenger open car, with a target weight of 2525 lb ( 1145 kg ), an Interceptor V8 engine based on the forthcoming overhead-valve Ford V8 slated for 1954 model year introduction, and a top speed of over 100 mph ( 160 km / h ).

The first Facel Vega model, designed by Daninos himself, debuted in 1954, equipped with a Chrysler engine.

Hudson's strong, light-weight bodies, combined with its high-torque inline six-cylinder engine technology made the company's 1951 – 54 Hornet an auto racing champion, dominating NASCAR in 1951, 1952, 1953, and 1954.

** Hunter F 6, a 1954 production variant of the Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft with Sapphire 101 engine

Early cars used AC's elderly two-litre overhead cam straight-six engine ( first seen soon after the end of the First World War ), which, according to a 1954 road test by Motor magazine, gave a top speed of and in 11. 4 seconds and a fuel consumption of.

For 1954, the Bel Air stayed essentially the same, except for a revised grille and taillights, and a revised engine that had insert bearings and higher oil pressure, needed for the full-flow oil filtration system that was not available prior to 1954.

In 1954, Rootes introduced a novel supercharged diesel engine, based on a Sulzer Brothers concept.

A smaller car, the Husky with van like body and using the old side-valve engine, was also new for 1954.

The Commando was released after WW2, and the Avenger on 28 February 1948, deploying the TS3 engine in the Avenger in 1954.