Page 6: Historical Events In 1954

Apr 11   In this year, Marlene Bauer claims LPGA New Orleans Golf Open   

Apr 12   18th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead claims, shooting a 289   

Apr 12   Billy Haley records "Rock Around the Clock"   

Apr 12   In this year, Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle and Roll"   

Apr 12   Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, Dutch journalist/sports-organizer, dies at 89   

Apr 13   Balt Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0.   

Apr 15   Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54.   

Apr 15   KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting.   

Apr 15   Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow   

Apr 16   KVAL TV channel 13 in Eugene, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting   

Apr 18   Colonel Nasser seizes power and is recorded as becoming PM of Egypt   

Apr 18   Colonel Nasser seizes power in Egypt   

Apr 19   7-time winner of the Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th   

Apr 20   "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances   

Apr 21   Gregori Malenkov is recorded as becoming premier of USSR.   

Apr 21   USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam   

Apr 22   Achiel van Acker forms Belgian govt.   

Apr 22   Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began Red scare starts.   

Apr 22   Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began.   

Apr 23   Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers   

Apr 23   Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits inaugural of his 755 homers   

Apr 24   " Billboard" magazine, the music industry trade publication, headlined a change to come about in the music biz. The headline read, "Teenagers Demand Music with a Beat -- Spur Rhythm and Blues" . Within a year, R and B music by both black and white artists caught the public’ s fancy   

Apr 24   1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina   

Apr 24   The inaugural American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina.   

Apr 25   Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (NYC).   

Apr 25   Bell labs announces inaugural solar battery (NYC).   

Apr 25   Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies.   

Apr 26   Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva.   

Apr 26   Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins.   

Apr 29   Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82.   

May 01   HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies)   

May 01   Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50.   

May 02   Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82.   

May 03   Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh and John Patrick.   

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Jan 02   Ludmila borozna: Ussr, volleyball player (olympic-gold-1972)   

Jan 02   Henry bonilla: American politician   

Jan 02   Dawn silva: American singer (the brides of funkenstein, p-funk)   

Jan 03   Ross the boss: Rocker   

Jan 03   Dean hart: Canadian wrestler    

Jan 03   Ned lamont: American businessman   

Jan 04   Eugene chadbourne: American composer and musician   

Jan 05   Bryan hitt: Rocker (reo speedwagon-keep on loving you)   

Jan 01   Duff cooper: British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)   

Jan 05   Rabbit maranville: American baseball player (b. 1891)   

Jan 10   Fred raymond: Composer,   

Jan 11   Edgar tytgat: Flemish painter/etcher/drawer,    

Jan 13   Roland diggle: Composer,    

Jan 16   Michail m prishvin: Russian writer,    

Jan 18   Sydney greenstreet: Actor (conflict, maltese falcon),   

Jan 19   Theodor kaluza: German scientist (b. 1885)