Télé Monte Carlo Launches, Europe’s Oldest Private TV Channel, November 19, 1954

Food rationing in Great Britain ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II, and nearly a decade after the war's end. Date: July 4, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 4 📅 Events on this day…

BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people. Date: January 10, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 10 📅 Events on this day in 1954 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1954CERN Convention Signed Establishing European Nuclear…

Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared as saints. Date:…

Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay. Date: August 15, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 15 📅 Events on this day in 1954 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1954Hudson Motor and Nash-Kelvinator Merge to Form American Motors Corporation January 14, 1954First Successful Kidney Transplant by J….

The first flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft takes place. Date: August 23, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 23 📅 Events on this day in 1954 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1954João Café Filho Becomes President of Brazil After Vargas Suicide, August 24, 1954Operation Castle…

Ellis Island ceases operations. Date: November 12, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 12 📅 Events on this day in 1954 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1954Télé Monte Carlo Launches, Europe’s Oldest Private TV Channel, November 19, 1954USS Nautilus, First Nuclear-Powered Submarine, Launched in Groton, January 21,…