October 1954

The following events occurred in October 1954:

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October 1, 1954 (Friday)

October 2, 1954 (Saturday)

October 3, 1954 (Sunday)

October 4, 1954 (Monday)

  • The Dutch cutter Jonge Jochem sails from Den Helder, and is never heard from again.

October 6, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • Author William Dudley (The Chosen River) is born in Alamance County, North Carolina. In 1958, his parents moved to Winston-Salem, NC, where he grew up and went to school, graduating from Reynolds High School in 1972. After a year at Wake Forest University, he transferred to the University of South Carolina in Columbia, NC, and majored in English, studying writing with William Price Fox. He graduated magna cum laude in 1976 and moved to San Francisco, California in 1977, where he still lives. He is married to the poet Claudia Jensen Dudley, for 40 years, and has two daughters (Anne and Clara) and two granddaughters (Leila and Emily).
  • Primate of Poland Stefan Wyszyński, imprisoned by the communist government, was relocated from Stoczek Klasztorny to Prudnik.

October 7, 1954 (Thursday)

  • Danish cargo ship Rikke Skou sinks off Terschelling, Netherlands, with the loss of twelve of her twenty crew.
  • British cargo ship La Pampa and coaster Seahorse both run aground in the Scheldt, Belgium.[1]
  • US ore carrier Mormackite capsizes and sinks off the coast of Virginia with the loss of 37 of her 48 crew.[2]

October 9, 1954 (Saturday)

  • Norwegian cargo ship Emma Bakke is in the Atlantic Ocean when there was a boiler explosion and fire. The crew abandon ship, and are rescued by Argentine ship Corrientes and taken to Lisbon, Portugal. Two crew are killed in the explosion and the ship sinks.[3]
  • Another Norwegian cargo ship, Jane Stove, suffers a fracture to her main deck whilst in the North Sea, but eventually reaches the Faroe Islands on 10 October.[4]
  • Died: Robert H. Jackson, 62, United States Supreme Court associate justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (myocardial infarction)

October 10, 1954 (Sunday)

October 11, 1954 (Monday)

October 12, 1954 (Tuesday)

October 14, 1954 (Thursday)

  • The first American four-stage rocket is launched by the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division of NACA's Langley Laboratory at Wallops Island.[9]

October 15, 1954 (Friday)

  • Hurricane Hazel makes U.S. landfall; it is the only recorded Category 4 hurricane to strike as far north as North Carolina.

October 16, 1954 (Saturday)

October 18, 1954 (Monday)

October 19, 1954 (Tuesday)

October 20, 1954 (Wednesday)

  • A dock workers' strike in the UK begins to escalate.
  • Born: Yati Octavia, Indonesian actress

October 22, 1954 (Friday)

  • Died: Jibanananda Das, 55, Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in Bengali, of injuries sustained when hit by a tram near Calcutta's Deshapriya Park on 14 October.[10]

October 23, 1954 (Saturday)

  • West Germany joins NATO.
  • Paris Agreement sets up the Western European Union to implement the Treaty of Brussels (1948) providing for mutual self-defence and other collaboration between Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

October 24, 1954 (Sunday)

October 25, 1954 (Monday)

  • Landslides caused by heavy rains hit Salerno, Italy, killing about 300.

October 26, 1954 (Tuesday)

October 28, 1954 (Thursday)

October 29, 1954 (Friday)

  • Born: Lee Child (real name Jim Grant), English thriller writer, in Coventry

October 30, 1954 (Saturday)

October 31, 1954 (Sunday)

References

  1. "British Ships In Difficulties". The Times. No. 53057. London. 8 October 1954. col D, p. 8.
  2. "American Ship Capsized". The Times. No. 53059. London. 11 October 1954. col D, p. 6.
  3. "Norwegian Ship Sunk In Atlantic". The Times. No. 53059. London. 11 October 1954. col D, p. 6.
  4. "Damaged Ship Reaches Faroes". The Times. No. 53059. London. 11 October 1954. col D, p. 6.
  5. Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
  6. "Hurricane Dents Economy of Haiti". New York Times. 1956-01-05. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  7. "Malan Retires From Ministry". No. 18. The Cornell Daily Sun. Associated Press. 13 October 1954. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  8. Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 352.
  9. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Grimwood, James M. "Part 1 (A) Major Events Leading to Project Mercury March 1944 through December 1957". Project Mercury - A Chronology. NASA Special Publication-4001. NASA. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  10. Das, Prabhatkumar (2003) Jibanananda Das; 2nd ed. Calcutta: Poshchim-bongo Bangla Akademi
  11. Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  12. Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  13. Aviation Safety Network: Accident Description
  14. Associated Press (October 31, 1954). "Wilbur Shaw Is Killed In Indiana Plane Crash". Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 2012-10-08. Shaw began racing on dirt tracks in his teens and made his first appearance at the Indianapolis track in 1927 He came in fourth in that first race. ...
  15. "LPGA Tournament Chronology 1950-1959" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
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