August 1954 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1954 Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
• 02 Aug 1954 Tahar Ben Ammar appointed Premier of Tunisia
• 03 Aug 1954 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
• 04 Aug 1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
• 05 Aug 1954 Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio
• 06 Aug 1954 WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 07 Aug 1954 Golden Apple closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 125 performances
• 10 Aug 1954 Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up
• 11 Aug 1954 BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0
• 12 Aug 1954 Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
• 13 Aug 1954 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6
• 14 Aug 1954 WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, New York (NBC) begins
• 15 Aug 1954 Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
• 16 Aug 1954 Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing
• 18 Aug 1954 James E Wilkins is 1st black to attend a US cabinet meeting
• 19 Aug 1954 Ralph J Bunche is named undersecretary of United Nations.
• 22 Aug 1954 WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, Florida (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 23 Aug 1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
• 24 Aug 1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
• 25 Aug 1954 Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon
• 29 Aug 1954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
• 30 Aug 1954 Hurricane Carol, kills 68
• 31 Aug 1954 WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins

Famous Birthday

• François Hollande

  A French politician who was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008.

• James Cameron

  Canadian film director.

• Joe Jackson (musician)
• Elvis Costello

  Rock Singer.

• Tula (model)
• François Valery
• Anne Barrère
• George Galloway

  Scottish politician, a Member of Parliament beginning with the General Election on June 11, 1987.

• Stieg Larsson

  Swedish journalist and writer.

• Pat Metheny

  American guitarist and songwriter (Pat Metheny Group).

• Basil T Fearrington
• René-Paul Victoria
• Alexandre Loukachenko
• Robert Kocharyan
• Archie Griffin

  American football player, the first two-time winner of the prestigious Heisman Trophy and three-time All-American between 1973 and 1975.

• Humbert Balsan

  French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy.

• Mark Fidrych

  American athlete; he played for the Detroit Tigers baseball team from 1976 until 1980.

• Paul Houde
• Lucid Beausonge
• Etienne Blanc
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Famous Deaths

• Billy Murray

  Singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77.

• Rene Amengual

  Composer, dies at 42.

• Colette [Willy]

  France -- Novelist (Vagabonde), dies at 81.

• Gino Tagliapietra

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Hermann W S Waltershausen

  German musicologist / composer, dies at 71.

• Charles-A Cingria

  Writer.

• Elsa Barker

  American writer (Born 1869).

• Colette

  French writer of voluptuous fiction, drama, criticism, and literary correspondence for a newspaper.

• Santo Trafficante

  Sr.

• Nikos Ploumpidis

  Greek educator and politician (d. 1954).

• Alcide de Gasperi

  Italian Premier (1945.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Leroy Holmes & His Orchestra - The High and the Mighty
2. Les Baxter & His Orchestra - The High And The Mighty
3. Victor Young & His Orchestra - The High And The Mighty
4. Rosemary Clooney - This Ole House
5. Tony Bennett - Cinnamon Sinner

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. David Whitfield With Mantovani & His Orchestra - Cara Mia
2. Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean A Lot
3. Perry Como - Idle Gossip
4. Frank Sinatra - Three Coins In The Fountain
5. Doris Day - Secret Love