In August 1954, " Blues " leader LCDR Ray Hawkins became the first naval aviator to survive an ejection at supersonic speeds when his F9F-6 became uncontrollable on a cross-country flight.

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.

In August 1954, Fuller was cast in Wood's The Vampire's Tomb, intended to star Bela Lugosi.

* 1954 – Ernst August, Prince of Hanover

From 1952, Philby struggled to find work as a journalist, eventually – in August 1954 – accepting a position with a diplomatic newsletter called the Fleet Street Letter.

Summarization of Reports Preceding Beria Purge, 17 August 1954.

When Stroessner took office on August 15, 1954, few people imagined that this circumspect, unassuming forty-one-year-old commander in chief would be a master politician capable of outmaneuvering and outlasting them all.

The piña colada was created on August 16, 1954 at the Caribe Hilton ’ s Beachcomber Bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico by its alleged creator, Ramón " Monchito " Marrero.

After spending months perfecting the recipe, Mr. Marrero created and sold the first piña colada on August 15, 1954, while working as the head bartender at the Caribe Hilton International Hotel, the most popular hotel in Puerto Rico among the 1950s.

* Method and apparatus for forming semiconductor structures, filed August 1954, issued February 1959, assigned to Philco Corporation

When long-serving party leader Vernon Treatt announced his resignation in August 1954, Askin put his name forward to replace him.

On Friday 6 August 1954, Treatt announced that he would resign as leader.

General Ahmed Mohammed became Sudan's first army chief in August 1954.

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900-31 August 1986 ), was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland ( 1950 – 1953, 1954 – 1956 ) and later as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland ( 1956 – 1982 ).

* August 12 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1954 )

* August 8 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal ( b. 1954 )

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

* August 30 – Fritzi Scheff, actress and singer, ( d. 1954 )

Indonesia declared independence in 17 August 1945 and subsequently fought a bitter war against the returning Dutch ; the Philippines was granted independence by the United States in 1946 ; Burma secured their independence from Britain in 1948, and the French were driven from Indochina in 1954 after a bitterly fought war ( the Indochina War ) against the Vietnamese nationalists.

* Evanston, Illinois, United States, 15 – 31 August 1954

* 1954: The Teahouse of the August Moon * – John Patrick

He married Adelia " Dede " Elmer on August 26, 1954.

" Popular Mechanics, August 1954, pp. 97 – 103 / 212.

The official absolute extreme temperatures are in Penhas da Saúde on 4 February 1954 and in Amareleja in the Alentejo region, on 1 August 2003.

Haakon saw two of his great-grandchildren being born, Haakon Lorentzen ( b. 23 August 1954 ) and Ingeborg Lorentzen ( b. 3 February 1957 ).

We want to know when the Potlatches telephone exactly how many they are planning to bring, so that we won't end up with a splashing mob that looks like Coney Island in August.

This may just be pride in my adopted State of Washington, but certainly I love to visit their mound cities near Yakima and Prosser in July or August, when the bees are in their most active period.

Angola-Vietnam relations were established in August 1971, four years before Angola gained its independence, when future President of Angola Agostinho Neto visited Vietnam.

) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.

He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.

Greeks stop harvesting the plant ( which usually grows wild ) when it starts to bloom at the end of August.

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

Ulysses S. Grant, whom Johnson appointed as Stanton's interim successor, advised against the action, but accepted the temporary appointment when Johnson proceeded with Stanton's suspension in August.

The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

In August 1825, he passed entrance exams at Harvard University, though when the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first two years which he had successfully challenged by examination, he chose not to attend.

The downfall in this system began on August 17, 1998, when Russia defaulted on its ruble debt and domestic dollar debt.

Anton succeeded his brother Frederick August I as King of Saxony when he died, on 5 May 1827.

Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

Fears were allayed August 27, 2008, when Clinton enthusiastically endorsed Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying that all his experience as president assures him that Obama is " ready to lead ".

The south of the country is most exposed to cold winds during the winter period ( early May to late August ) when average temperatures are around.

Both Brooke and Alexander were astonished by the transformation in atmosphere when they visited on 19 August, less than a week after Montgomery had taken command.

Had the battle actually taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would not be plausible.

He had not resided there long when an edict appeared ( August 8, 1564 ) banishing all foreign dissidents.

Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.

The country seemed to be on the brink of civil war when World War I broke out in August 1914.

Bud Selig also did not attend the San Francisco Giants ' baseball game on August 7 when Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run ; after the event, Selig released a statement congratulating Bonds.

Nelson's first set of dispatches were captured when Leander was intercepted and defeated by Généreux in a fierce engagement off the western shore of Crete on 18 August 1798.

He remained a self-described " non-factional social democrat " until August 1917 when he joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks as their positions assembled and he came to believe that Lenin was right on the issue of the party.