...Date... AGE Event
1954/--/-- -1 - A Supreme Court decision prohibits racial segregation in U.S. public schools.
1954/--/-- -1 - American novelist Evan Hunter publishes The Blackboard Jungle.
1954/--/-- -1 - British artist Francis Bacon begins his Portrait of Pope Innocent X series.
1954/--/-- -1 - British novelist William Golding publishes Lord of the Flies.
1954/--/-- -1 - Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood is performed posthumously.
1954/--/-- -1 - English runner Roger Bannister is first to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
1954/--/-- -1 - French forces are defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in North Vietnam.
1954/--/-- -1 - Gamal Abdel Nasser ousts Gen. Muhammad Naguib as president of Egypt.
1954/--/-- -1 - Ian Fleming publishes the first James Bond thriller Casino Royale.
1954/--/-- -1 - Italian film-maker Federico Fellini directs La Strada.
1954/--/-- -1 - Kingsley Amis, one of England's angry young men, publishes Lucky Jim.
1954/--/-- -1 - Marlon Brando stars in Elia Kazan's film On the Waterfront.
1954/--/-- -1 - National Liberation Front (FLN) raids on French property spark the Algerian War.
1954/--/-- -1 - Senator McCarthy is discredited for failing to prove claims of communist penetration.
1954/--/-- -1 - Television thrives; radio switches to music
1954/--/-- -1 - The Geneva Conference establishes the partition of Vietnam into North and South.
1954/--/-- -1 - The U.S. and Canada begin construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1954/--/-- -1 - The U.S. nuclear submarine the Nautilus is launched.
1954/--/-- -1 - U.S. "Nautilus" first nuclear submarine
1954/01/30 -1 *** Huddleston, Ralph Edward [2nd cousin] & Williams, Hazel - Married
1954/08/08 0 *** Carmichael, Randolph Tucker - Born to Carmichael, John Craig and Booher, Sara Alice
1954/09/24 0 *** Booher, Patricia Mae [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1954/10/-- 0 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL CLEVELAND (0)
1955/--/-- 0 - A military coup in Argentina deposes president Juan Peron.
1955/--/-- 0 - AFL and CIO merge
1955/--/-- 0 - American artist Jasper Johns begins his paintings of American flags and targets.
1955/--/-- 0 - American artist Larry Rivers paints Double Portrait of Birdie.
1955/--/-- 0 - American rock 'n' roll musician Bill Haley records Rock Around the Clock.
1955/--/-- 0 - Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as prime minister of Great Britain.
1955/--/-- 0 - Austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
1955/--/-- 0 - Blacks boycott buses in Montgomery
1955/--/-- 0 - British writer Graham Greene publishes The Quiet American.
1955/--/-- 0 - British writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien completes The Lord of the Rings.
1955/--/-- 0 - David Ben-Gurion returns as prime minister of Israel.
1955/--/-- 0 - Film star James Dean is killed in a car crash.
1955/--/-- 0 - Jonas Salk's vaccine against polio comes into widespread use.
1955/--/-- 0 - Marian Anderson becomes the first black to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House.
1955/--/-- 0 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a boycott against racial segregation on buses.
1955/--/-- 0 - Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov publishes the novel Lolita.
1955/--/-- 0 - Satyajit Ray directs Pather Panchali, the first film in a trilogy on Bengali family life.
1955/--/-- 0 - Supreme Court orders school desegregation
1955/--/-- 0 - The Federal Republic of Germany joins NATO.
1955/--/-- 0 - The Warsaw Pact establishes a military alliance of European Communist nations.
1955/--/-- 0 - Theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin publishes The Phenomenon of Man.
1955/10/-- 1 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1956/--/-- 1 - American beat poet Allen Ginsberg publishes Howl and Other Poems.
1956/--/-- 1 - American television news show The Huntley-Brinkley Report begins.
1956/--/-- 1 - American writer Grace Metalious publishes Peyton Place.
1956/--/-- 1 - Anglo-French forces invade Egypt but withdraw after protests from the U.S.
1956/--/-- 1 - Archbishop Makarios III is deported from Cyprus by the British.
1956/--/-- 1 - Brendan Behan's play The Quare Fellow opens in London.
1956/--/-- 1 - Britain, France and Israel agree on a secret joint action against Egypt.
1956/--/-- 1 - British artist Richard Hamilton produces the first pop art work.
1956/--/-- 1 - David Niven stars in the film Around the World in Eighty Days.
1956/--/-- 1 - Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night is produced.
1956/--/-- 1 - Fidel Castro and Che Guevara land in Cuba and begin a guerrilla war.
1956/--/-- 1 - Film actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
1956/--/-- 1 - Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires without being defeated.
1956/--/-- 1 - Israeli forces under Moshe Dayan seize the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
1956/--/-- 1 - John Osborne's first play Look Back In Anger is produced in London.
1956/--/-- 1 - Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady opens in New York.
1956/--/-- 1 - President Anastasio Somoza Garcia is assassinated in Nicaragua.
1956/--/-- 1 - President Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal before the British lease expires.
1956/--/-- 1 - President Ngo Dinh Diem refuses to hold elections in South Vietnam.
1956/--/-- 1 - Rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley records his first hit Heartbreak Hotel.
1956/--/-- 1 - Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounces the crimes of the Stalin era.
1956/--/-- 1 - Sudan gains independence from Anglo-Egyptian rule.
1956/--/-- 1 - The Hungarian Uprising is suppressed by Soviet troops.
1956/--/-- 1 - The Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sinks off the U.S. coast after a collision in fog.
1956/--/-- 1 - Tunisia and Morocco are granted independence by France.
1956/05/28 1 *** Booher, Kathleen Allison [1st cousin] - Born to Booher, Joseph Pickens and Akers, Angelaine
1956/10/-- 2 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1956/12/16 2 *** Booher, Nicholas [2nd cousin] - Born to Booher, George William Randall and Buchanon, Julia Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio
1956/12/20 2 *** Huddleston, Billy Gene [2nd cousin] & Huff, Roxie - Married
1957/--/-- 2 - Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac publishes On The Road.
1957/--/-- 2 - Black tennis player Althea Gibson wins the U.S. Open and Wimbledon championships.
1957/--/-- 2 - British philosopher A.J. Ayer publishes The Problem of Knowledge.
1957/--/-- 2 - British prime minister Anthony Eden resigns; is succeeded by Harold Macmillan.
1957/--/-- 2 - Dr. Seuss publishes the children's book The Cat in the Hat.
1957/--/-- 2 - Francois Duvalier (known as Papa Doc) is elected president of Haiti.
1957/--/-- 2 - Ghana gains independence; Kwame Nkrumah becomes the first prime minister.
1957/--/-- 2 - Jack Kerouac "On the Road"
1957/--/-- 2 - Jerome Robbins is director-choreographer of the musical West Side Story.
1957/--/-- 2 - John G. Diefenbaker succeeds Louis St. Laurent as prime minister of Canada.
1957/--/-- 2 - Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine, the first of The Alexandria Quartet novels.
1957/--/-- 2 - Scientists from 67 nations work together during the International Geophysical Year.
1957/--/-- 2 - Soviet leaders Malenkov and Molotov fail in an attempt to oust Khrushchev from power.
1957/--/-- 2 - Soviets launch "Sputnik", first artificial satellite
1957/--/-- 2 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directs The Seventh Seal.
1957/--/-- 2 - The Israeli army withdraws from Egypt; the Gaza Strip is policed by UN forces.
1957/--/-- 2 - The USSR launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite.
1957/--/-- 2 - The Viet Cong begin acts of rebellion in South Vietnam.
1957/--/-- 2 - Tunku Abdul Rahman becomes the first prime minister of independent Malaya (Malaysia).
1957/06/07 2 *** Booher, Virginia Kaye [1st cousin once removed] & Grider, Charles Roy - Married
1957/06/15 2 *** Booher, Doris Evangeline [1st cousin once removed] & Benson, Roy Lee - Married
1957/10/-- 3 *** Carmichael, Randolph Tucker - Died
1957/10/-- 3 - World Series NL MILWAUKEE (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
In 1954 Transportation was by:
Foot
Bicycle
Train
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
Propeller airplane
Helicopter
Jet
By 1957 Transportation was by:
nuclear ship
in addition.
In 1954 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
In 1954 Food Preparation was by:
Gas
Refrigeration
In 1954 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1954 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1954 War Making was by:
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Assault rifle
tank
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
Chemical agents
Biological agents
Aeroplane
Helicopter
Missiles
Atomic Bomb
By 1957 War Making was by:
Satellites
in addition.
In 1954 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
Radio Signals
Radar
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:56:37