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1954 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2027. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1954 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1954

• February 3, 1954 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
• February 25, 1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
• March 13, 1954 – First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
• April 25, 1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
• June 18, 1954 – Pierre Mendès France becomes Prime Minister of France.
• June 22, 1954 – In Christchurch, New Zealand, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline’s mother because they think she is in the way of their friendship.
• August 24, 1954 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
• September 29, 1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
• October 15, 1954 – Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far south as North Carolina.
• December 23, 1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.

Who Were Born On 1954?

• February 3, 1954 – Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• February 5, 1954 – Cliff Martinez, American drummer and songwriter
• May 19, 1954 – Nükhet Duru, Turkish singer and actress
• May 28, 1954 – Charles Saumarez Smith, English historian and academic
• June 12, 1954 – Tim Razzall, Baron Razzall, English lawyer and politician
• August 12, 1954 – Pat Metheny, American guitarist and songwriter (Pat Metheny Group)
• September 8, 1954 – Michael Shermer, American historian, author, and academic, founded The Skeptics Society
• November 8, 1954 – Rickie Lee Jones, American singer-songwriter and producer
• December 1, 1954 – Judith Hackitt, English chemist and engineer
• December 20, 1954 – Sandra Cisneros, American author and poet