While Nehru exempted Muslim law from legislation and they remained un-reformed, he did pass the Special Marriage Act in 1954.

Congress passed the necessary legislation and Eisenhower signed the bill into law on Flag Day, June 14, 1954.

As legislation, such as the Wild Birds Protection Act 1954 in the United Kingdom, made it impossible to collect eggs legally, the practice of egg collecting, or ' egging ', continued as an ' underground ' or illegal activity in the UK and elsewhere.

Following the recommendation of the Board, Congress passed legislation in 1954 to begin the construction of the Air Force Academy, and President Eisenhower signed it into law on 1 April of that year.

Environmental legislation since 1952, such as the City of London ( Various Powers ) Act 1954 and the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968, has led to a reduction in air pollution.

The World War II exploits of the squadron and Chastise in particular, were described in Paul Brickhill's 1951 book The Dam Busters and a 1954 film, though the accuracy and completeness of this account was compromised by many of the documents relating to the war years, still being secured by the Official Secrets legislation.

From 1954 on, U. S. Representative Leonor Sullivan strove unceasingly to pass food-stamp-program legislation.

Using Freedom of Information legislation, he also got hold of another CIA report from 1954.

A strong opponent of discrimination, Javits also endorsed anti-poll tax legislation in 1947 and 1949, and in 1954 he unsuccessfully sought to have enacted a bill banning segregation in federally funded housing projects.

In 1996 UNHCR was asked by the UNGA to actively promote accessions to the 1954 and the 1961 conventions, as well as to provide relevant technical and advisory services pertaining to the preparation and implementation of nationality legislation to interested states.

In 1953, Hays sponsored House Resolution 60, to create within the Capitol building, “ a place of retreat as an encouragement to prayer .” This followed a trend of religious legislation which had manifested the previous year in the establishment of the National Day of Prayer, and would continue in following years with the insertion of the words " under God " into the Pledge of Allegiance ( 1954 ), and the addition of “ In God We Trust ” to the national currency ( 1955 ).

As a result of the Civil Rights Movement challenging the restrictions and discrimination practiced against blacks exercise of constitutional rights, a series of US Supreme Court cases, beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the 24th Amendment, and federal legislation: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had overturned the most controversial aspects of the 1902 Constitution – the provisions restricting voting by African Americans and mandating school segregation.

The legislation was prompted, in part, by attacks on the islands of Kinmen and Matsu in the Taiwan Straits by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1954.

During the late 1950s, after a series of lurid magazine articles and Hollywood films helped to sensationalize youth gangs and violence, Delaney was one of the first congressmen to author legislation banning automatic-opening or switchblade knives in 1954.

It would not be until 1954 that Plessy was overturned in Brown v. Board of Education, and only in the late 1960s was segregation fully repealed by legislation passed following the American Civil Rights Movement.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

In 1954, the first university in the city was created, the UFC.

The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson starting in 1954 – 55.

The Paganini Competition ( Premio Paganini ) is an international violin competition created in 1954 in his home city of Genoa and named in his honour.

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.

In 1954, he wrote, "... many Americans ... were asserting loudly that McCarthy had created a ' reign of terror.

On November 22, 1954, the state of West-Pakistan was established created by the merger of the provinces, states and tribal areas of the West Pakistan.

Thus, in December 1954, a Committee for Public Security ( Kds. BP ) Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego was created, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MSW ).

VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.

In 1954, Harriet Adams created the Tom Swift, Jr., series, which was published under the name " Victor Appleton II ".

The strip was created by Leo Baxendale under the title When the Bell Rings, and first appeared in The Beano in issue 604, dated 13 February 1954.

It was only after I'd created Little Plum ( April 1953 ) and Minnie the Minx ( September 1953 ) that the Beano editor George Moonie travelled to Preston on 20 October 1953 and asked me to go ahead with Bash Street ( he gave it the provisional title of ' When The Bell Goes '; when it appeared in The Beano in February 1954, it was titled ' When The Bell Rings ').

It was here that he became part of the team, along with director Ishirō Honda and producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, that created the first Godzilla film in 1954, and were dubbed by Toho's advertising department as " The Golden Trio ".

More than 293, 000 Vietnamese refugees left the newly created communist North Vietnam during Operation Passage to Freedom ( October 1954 ).

Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived it in New York in 1940 and then immortalised it on television for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954.

Perhaps the greatest discovery came in 1954 – 1958 with the excavation of the workshop at Olympia where Phidias created the statue.

Dulles was also the architect of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ( SEATO ) that was created in 1954.

During the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ), the agency created the Organization of the French Algerian Resistance ( ORAF ), a group of counter-terrorists whose mission was to carry out false flag terrorist attacks with the aim of quashing any hopes of political compromise.

Founded in 1954, the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) succeeded Messali Hadj's Algerian People's Party ( PPA ), while its leaders created an armed wing, the Armée de Libération Nationale ( National Liberation Army ) to engage in an armed struggle against French authority.

The game was created in 1954 by Frenchman Edmond Dujardin, and was quite similar to the earlier American automotive card game Touring.

J. J. Johnson and trumpeter Miles Davis both recorded several sessions for Blue Note between 1952 and 1954, but by then the musicians who had created bebop were starting to explore other styles.

A historic marker in front of the Harris County Courthouse erected in 1954 by the Georgia Historical Commission reads as follows: " This county, created by Acts of the Legislature December 14, 1827, is named for Charles Harris, eminent Savannah jurist.

The Plaquemines Port, Harbor & Terminal District is coextensive with the parish, and was created in 1954 by the legislature of Louisiana as a state agency.

The Bachman Uxbridge Worsted Company's proposed 1954 buyout of the American Woolen Company would have created America's largest woolen conglomerate.

* 1954 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.

After World War II, a small number of technically able sopranos, the most notable of whom were first Maria Callas ( with performances from 1952 and especially those at La Scala and Berlin in 1954 / 55 under Herbert von Karajan ) and then Dame Joan Sutherland ( with her 1959 performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1959, which were repeated in 1960 ), revived the opera in all of its original tragic glory.

Burtt, Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science ( Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1954 ).

Henry and LeRoy Kennedy, members of the Garden Oaks Baptist Church, began developing the community in February 1954.

In 1953 he had a role as a bureaucrat in the short film The Pleasure Garden, which won the Prix de Fantasie Poetique at the Cannes Film Festival in 1954.

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

Filmed among the ruins of the Crystal Palace Terraces, The Pleasure Garden is a poetic ode to desire, and winner of the Prix de Fantasie Poetique at Cannes in 1954.

( On June 4, 1954, Los Angeles-based heavyweight boxer Clarence Henry, who was managed by Mafiosi Frank " Blinky " Palermo, was arrested in New York City for attempting to bribe Oakland, California middleweight Bobby Jones to throw his June 11 Madison Square Garden match with Giardello.

Burtt, Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science ( Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1954 ).

Garden City, New York: Hanover House, 1954.

He performed for the first time at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1950 and sang with the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1954 until 1974.

Garden City, N. Y .: Doubleday, 1954.

Gedda made his Royal Opera House Covent Garden début in 1954 as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto and has since returned to sing Benvenuto Cellini, Alfredo, Gustavus III, Nemorino and Lensky.

On 29 July 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, calling her the " woman of the year " She was then sent on a tour of six states where she met with luminaries and appeared before large crowds in cities such as Cleveland, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco.

In 1954, it was renamed as Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem.

The second through 43rd Beanpots ( 1954 through 1995 ) were held at the old Boston Garden.

In 1954 Hale was engaged as a principal soprano at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, where she sang most of the major lyric soprano roles.

* How To Be A Winner at Chess ( Hanover, Garden City, 1954 )( ISBN 0-449-91206-X )

* 1954 Wonder Garden / Spanish

She remained busy over the next several years appearing as Avice Brunton in The Bombshell ( 1954 ), Portia in The Merchant of Venice ( 1955 ), and Olivia in The Chalk Garden ( 1956 ).

In 1954, the Garden began participating in the international seed exchange program, publishing its first Index Seminum, and in 1961 was extended with a collection of acidophilous plants including rhododendrons, azaleas, and ferns.

* Sunset Western Garden Book, First Edition, 1954

The ballet was later produced by the Borovansky Ballet in 1954, Covent Garden in 1959, National Ballet of Canada in 1959, the Joffrey Ballet in 1970, Noverre Ballet in 1972 and Oslo Ballet in 1975.

Famous examples of nudist films of this perid included Garden of Eden ( 1954 ) directed by Max Nosseck and Naked Venus ( 1958 ) directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

* Garden of Demon ( 1954 )