After starting the 1954 campaign with a two-game split against the Tigers in Detroit, the Orioles returned to Baltimore on April 15 to a welcoming parade that wound through the streets of downtown, with an estimated 350, 000 spectators lining the route.

He was unable to record it until April 12, 1954.

Eureka was incorporated as a fourth-class city on April 7, 1954.

A few months later, the novel was serialized in the March, April, and May 1954 issues of Playboy.

:* Philip V. Cardon ( U. S .): January 1954 – April 1956.

They were enunciated in the preamble to the " Agreement ( with exchange of notes ) on trade and intercourse between Tibet Region of China and India ", which was signed at Peking on 29 April 1954.

Negotiations took place in Delhi from December 1953 to April 1954 between the Delegation of the PRC Government and the Delegation of the Indian Government on the relations between the two countries with respect to the disputed territories of Aksai Chin and South Tibet.

Purge of L. P. Beria, 17 April 1954.

Mumia Abu-Jamal ( born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954 ) is an American convict, serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

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.

Three months earlier, on April 12, 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded " Rock Around the Clock ".

Another series of the fiftes, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers broadcast live Saturdays from April 18, 1953 to May 29, 1954.

* April 2 – Juan Gómez González, Juanito, Spanish footballer ( b. 1954 )

* April 19 – Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil ( d. 1954 )

* April 16 – Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that had not existed for a long time.

Riccardo Gabriele Patrese ( born 17 April 1954 ) is an Italian former racing driver, who raced in Formula One from to.

In April 1954, Kelly flew to Colombia for a 10-day shoot on her next project, Green Fire, with Stewart Granger.

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

* Eight-term senator from South Carolina ( December 1954 – April 1956 and November 1956 – January 2003 )

** Democrat ( 1954 – April 1956 and November 1956 – September 1964 )

They were granted on 2 April 1954.

He was twice a castaway on Desert Island Discs – first in April 1954 in tandem with Richard Murdoch and then on his own in January 1961.

* Byron Cook ( born April 8, 1954 ), Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives

Myers claimed the song had been written specifically for Haley but, for various reasons, Haley was unable to record it himself until April 12, 1954.

After leaving Essex Records in the spring of 1954, Bill Haley signed with the then-important Decca Records label, and the band's first recording session was set for April 12, 1954 at the Pythian Temple studios in New York City.

In April 1834, Johnston took up farming in Texas, but enlisted as a private in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence against the Republic of Mexico in 1836.

In China the symbolic ploughing of the earth by the emperor and princes of the blood took place in their third month, which frequently corresponds to April.

In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

The marriage took place on 30 April or 16 October 1325 and was a purely political maneuver to strengthen the first Polish – Lithuanian coalition against the Teutonic Knights.

Due to the Anglo-Boer War, the first census of Bechuanaland Protectorate, originally set to occur in 1901, took place on 17 April 1904.

He returned to the Western Front in early 1916 as a general staff officer in the 33rd Division and took part in the Battle of Arras in April / May 1917.

Fuller's last filmed interview took place on April 3, 1983, in which he presented his analysis of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers as a unique embodiment of the structural principles found in nature.

One particularly humorous example of such promotional efforts is the Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie, held in 1997 on April Fool's Day, an event in which dozens of prominent artists took over each other's strips.

In November 2011, Charles took time off from Coronation Street to film a new series of Red Dwarf, returning to filming on ' Corrie ' in April 2012.

When Azali took power he also pledged to step down in April 2000 and relinquish control to a democratically elected president — a pledge with mixed results.

In a letter published in The Times newspaper on 9 April 1983, Geoffrey Crawley explained the discrepancy by suggesting that the photograph was " an unintended double exposure of fairy cutouts in the grass ", and thus " both ladies can be quite sincere in believing that they each took it ".

One of Coronation Streets best known storylines took place in March / April 1998, with Deirdre Rachid being wrongfully imprisoned after a relationship with con-man Jon Lindsay.

Spurred by the crisis, on 1 April 286, Maximian took up the title of Augustus.

On 12 April 1571, Oxford attained his majority and took his seat in the House of Lords.

On Oxford's return across the Channel in April, his ship was hijacked by pirates from Flushing, who took his possessions, stripped him to his shirt, and might have murdered him had not one of them recognized him.

The exile government took oath on 17 April 1971 at Mujib Nagar, within East Pakistan territory of Kustia district and formally formed the government.

Early on Monday morning, 24 April 1916, roughly 1, 200 Volunteers and Citizen Army members took over strongpoints in Dublin city centre.

In County Wexford, some 100 Volunteers led by Robert Brennan, Seamus Doyle and J R Etchingham took over Enniscorthy on Thursday 27 April until the following Sunday.

ELO's debut concert took place on 15 April 1972 at The Fox & Hounds Pub in Croydon, U. K. with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt ( horns, keyboards ), Wilfred Gibson ( violin ), Hugh McDowell ( cello ), Mike Edwards, Andy Craig ( cello ) and Richard Tandy on bass.

The first commercial exhibition of film took place on April 14, 1894 at Edison's Kinetoscope peep-show parlor.

The main German formations then advanced rapidly eastwards from Hanko and took Helsinki on 12 – 13 April.

The main German detachment advanced northwards from Helsinki and took Hyvinkää and Riihimäki on 21 – 22 April, followed by Hämeenlinna on 26 April.

On 13 April German troops took over the Market Square, " Smolna ", the Presidential Palace, and the Senate-Ritarihuone area.