October 1954 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation.
• 02 Oct 1954 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit
• 03 Oct 1954 Father Knows Best premieres
• 05 Oct 1954 Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US.
• 07 Oct 1954 Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt
• 09 Oct 1954 KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 10 Oct 1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out
• 11 Oct 1954 On Your Toes opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 64 performances
• 14 Oct 1954 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
• 15 Oct 1954 Hurricane Hazel strikes US and Canada, 348 die
• 17 Oct 1954 Philadelphia Eagles' Adrian Burk passes for seven touchdowns vs Washington Redskins (49-21).
• 18 Oct 1954 WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, SC (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
• 19 Oct 1954 Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs
• 20 Oct 1954 Peter Pan opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances
• 21 Oct 1954 Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
• 22 Oct 1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• 23 Oct 1954 German FR joins NATO
• 24 Oct 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
• 25 Oct 1954 Landslides caused by heavy rains hit Salerno, Italy, killing about 300.
• 26 Oct 1954 Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine
• 27 Oct 1954 B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
• 28 Oct 1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
• 29 Oct 1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
• 30 Oct 1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry
• 31 Oct 1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Texas Golf Open

Famous Birthday

• Rekha (actress)
• David Lee Roth

  American singer (Van Halen).

• Edouard Stern
• Stevie Ray Vaughan

  American blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at age 35 (born 1954).

• Chico (Gipsy Kings)
• Ang Lee

  Director (Ice Storm, Wedding Banquet, Sense & Sensibility).

• Michael Dudikoff

  American actor.

• Ken Wahl

  American actor and screenwriter.

• Scott Bakula

  American actor, star of TV series "Quantum Leap" and "Star Trek Enterprise.

• Bob Weinstein
• Al Sharpton

  American clergyman, a minister and a Democratic activist.

• Lorraine Bracco

  American actress and producer.

• Gilbert Rozon

  Canadian impresario and founder of the Just for Laughs (Juste pour Rire) comedy festival, which he created on 14 July 1983.

• Ariane Ascaride

  French actress and screenwriter, she won the 1998 best actress Cesar for her role in "Marius et Jeannette".

• Philippe Poupon
• Georges Fenech
• Christine Orban
• Dennis Eckersley

  American baseball played, a right-handed pitcher who played with the Cleveland Indians (1975–1977), Boston Red Sox (1978–1984, 1998),...

• Lauren Tewes
• Corinna Harfouch

  German actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Prosper Cocquyt

  Belgian brewer / pilot, dies at 54.

• Henri Zagwijn

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Floris HL Prims

  Flemish priest / Historian / archivist of Antwerp.

• Herbert Prior

  Actor (Pollyanna), dies at 87.

• Hakon Borresen

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Willie Shaw

  race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 1939, 1940), dies at age 51.

• Flor Alpaerts

  Belgian conductor, pedagogue and composer.

• Jibanananda Das

  Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author (d. 1954).

• George Welch

  American pilot (Born 1918).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Perry Como - Papa Loves Mambo
2. DeCastro Sisters - Teach Me Tonight
3. McGuire Sisters - Muskrat Ramble
4. Les Paul & Mary Ford - Whither Thou Goest
5. Chordettes - Mr. Sandman

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Don Cornell - Hold My Hand
2. Vera Lynn - My Son My Son
3. Nat 'King' Cole - Smile
4. Frank Sinatra - Three Coins In The Fountain
5. Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean A Lot