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Death of Alfred Duff Cooper
Historical records for Great Britain in 1954, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Death of Alfred Duff Cooper
Opens the New Zealand Parliament
Birth of Jimmy Nail
Birth of Trevor John Francis
Opens Owen Falls
Operation Anvil leads to the detention of over 16,000 Mau Mau suspects in Kenya
1st person to run the mile in under 4 minutes
1st person to run the mile in under 4 minutes
Returns from the Commonwealth tour
Returns from the Commonwealth tour
Death of Alan Mathison Turing, suicide by cyanide poisoning
Dies in London aged seventy-four after more than three decades of parliamentary and Labour Party service.
The Defence Policy Committee outlines the production of the British H-bomb
Restrictions on meat and bacon end, completing the abolition of wartime food rationing.
Food rationing ends
Cabinet agrees to produce the British H-bomb in Britain
Serves with Molotov as joint Chairman of the Geneva Conference
Visit of the King of Sweden
The dockers go on unofficial strike
Armfield makes his Blackpool debut at Portsmouth
Appointed Minister of Defence
Accepts a timetable for British withdrawal from the Suez Canal base while preserving emergency access arrangements.
Appointed Home Secretary
Visit of Haile Selassie
Feels he can lead another election but Woolton, the Party Chairman, disagrees. Churchill says he can lead another election but Woolton, the Party Chairman, disagrees
The North Atlantic Council approves MC 48 which states that NATO would have to use atomic weapons from the outset of a war with the Soviet Union whether or not the Soviets chose to use them first
The North Atlantic Council approves MC 48 which states that NATO would have to use atomic weapons from the outset of a war with the Soviet Union whether or not the Soviets chose to use them first
Publication of "The Second World War", 1948-54. Publication of "A History of the English Speaking Peoples", 1956-1958
Publication of "The Second World War", 1948-54. Publication of "A History of the English Speaking Peoples", 1956-1958
Stars in A Star is Born with Judy Garland, bringing him the first of three Oscar nominations
Stas in An Inspector Calls. Plays Miss Fritton, in two of the St Trinians film comedies, principally the first, The Belles of St Trinians in which he also played her shady brother, Clarence Fritton
Gets the Parliamentary Labour Party to support German rearmament
Agrees with the USA that Germany should be able to rearm
Agrees with the USA that the Allies should allow Germany to rearm
A 3-2 result over Preston North End brings West Bromwich Albion the trophy under Buckingham.
Predicts the excited carbon-12 resonance needed for efficient stellar carbon production.
Helps Found the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Britain agrees to keep 4 Divisions on the Continent & the French agree to German rearmament
Stars opposite Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcocks Dial M for Murder
Directs The Divided Heart
Publication of "Dont Trust to Luck"
Enters Rutlish Grammar School
Healey joins the Fabian Society executive and contributes to Labour policy debate.
Healey joins the Fabian Society executive and contributes to its policy discussions.
Healey serves on the Fabian Society executive from 1954 until 1961.
Begins working with Tony Hancock in BBC radios Hancocks Half Hour
Opposes Labour leadership support for German rearmament.
Participates in Labour arguments over German rearmament and European security.
Hoyle published a major analysis of nuclear reactions producing elements from carbon through nickel in very hot stars.
Directs An Inspector Calls
Continues as Labour Party Treasurer, an office he first won in 1943, until his death in June 1954.
Captains Celtic to their first League championship since 1938
Publication of "Lord of the Flies"
Publication of "Lucky Jim", a brilliant comic satire on academic life
Publication of "Lucky Jim", a brilliant comic satire on academic life
Publishes Mr Balfour's Poodle about the constitutional struggle leading to the Parliament Act.
Nineteen Eighty-Four gains a wider audience through broadcasting.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially the statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.
Supports liberalising obscenity law as part of his civil-liberties agenda.
Sellers plays Private Goffin in Orders Are Orders.
Is elected President of the Oxford Union for Michaelmas term after earlier service as secretary and treasurer.
Serves as Oxford Union treasurer and pursues a growth strategy intended to increase membership and revenue rather than rely only on spending cuts.
Appointed Party Treasurer of the Labour Party
A poll on who should succeed Churchill reveals 2% support MacMillan & 52% support Eden
Contributes to the Conservative policy publication Change is our Ally.
The Ministry of Food is merged with the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries
Bevan resigns over the Labour Party leadership's support for German rearmament
Attlee gets Parliamentary Labour Party support for German rearmament, and Bevan resigns from the Shadow Cabinet
Opposes Churchills resignation but changes his mind by January 1955
Publishes a revised edition of The Social Services: Needs and Means with Iain Macleod.
Appointed President of the Royal Academy
The Turkish want Cyprus returned or partioned, Britain refuses its independence
Blocks Russia's membership of NATO
Bevan's resignation from the Shadow Cabinet helps put Wilson back on the front bench as a spokesman, initially, on finance
Resigns from the Shadow Cabinet over German rearmament.
Appointed Solicitor General
Publishes work explaining how heavy elements are built inside stars.
Writer & Diector of The Belles of St Trinians
First film role was in The Belles of St Trinians
Appears in The Colditz Story
Publishes The Doors of Perception.
Publication of "The Second World War", 1948-54. Publication of "A History of the English Speaking Peoples", 1956-1958
Publication of "The Second World War", 1948-54. Publication of "A History of the English Speaking Peoples", 1956-1958
Hoyle explained how a resonant nuclear state permits efficient carbon production from helium inside stars.
The "Western European Union" will co-ordinate European armies, including Britain
The "Western European Union" will co-ordinate European armies, including Britain
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