July 1954

The following events occurred in July 1954:

July 1, 1954 (Thursday)

• The Common Nordic Labor Market Act comes into effect.
• The United States officially begins using the international unit of the nautical mile, equal to 6,076.11549 ft. or 1,852 meters.
• Died:Thea von Harbou, German actress (b. 1888)

July 3, 1954 (Saturday)

• Died:Reginald Marsh, American artist (b. 1898)

July 4, 1954 (Sunday)

• 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.
• “Miracle of Bern”: West Germany beats Hungary 3–2 to win the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

July 6, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Died:Gabriel Pascal, Hungarian producer and director (b. 1894)

July 10, 1954 (Saturday)

• Peter Thomson becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship.
• Born:Yō Yoshimura, Japanese voice actor (d. 1991)

July 11, 1954 (Sunday)

• Died:Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician and author (b. 1859)

July 13, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Died:
  • Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
  • Irving Pichel, American actor and director (b. 1891)
  • Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (b. 1880)

July 14, 1954 (Wednesday)

• Died:
  • Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
  • Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)

July 15, 1954 (Thursday)

• The maiden flight of the Boeing 367-80 (or Dash 80), prototype of the Boeing 707 series.
• Juan Fangio, the Argentine driver for German Grand Prix team Mercedes-Benz, makes a new fastest lap of the Silverstone Circuit with an average speed of 100.35 mph, the previous record being 100.16 mph.

July 16, 1954 (Friday)

• Died:Herms Niel, German composer (b. 1888)

July 17, 1954 (Saturday)

• Died:Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)

July 21, 1954 (Wednesday)

• First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide the government for all of Vietnam by July 1956. Failure to abide by the terms of the agreement leads to the establishment de facto of regimes of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, and the Vietnam War.

July 25, 1954 (Sunday)

• Born:Walter Payton, African-American football player (d. 1999)

July 26, 1954 (Monday)

• Born:Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994)

July 27, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Born:Lynne Frederick, British actress (d. 1994)

July 28, 1954 (Wednesday)

• Born:Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
• Died:Sōjin Kamiyama or "Sojin", Japanese film star during the American silent film era, (b. 1884)

July 29, 1954 (Thursday)

• Died:Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)

July 31, 1954 (Saturday)

• Italian mountaineers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni become the first successfully to reach the summit of the Himalayan peak K2.

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