September 1954

The following events occurred in September 1954:

September 1, 1954 (Wednesday)

• Died:Bert Acosta, American aviator (b. 1895)

September 3, 1954 (Friday)

• The last 'new' episode of The Lone Ranger radio program is broadcast, after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years. Reruns of old episodes continue to be transmitted.
• Died:Eugene Pallette, American actor (b. 1889)

September 5, 1954 (Sunday)

• Died:Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)

September 6, 1954 (Monday)

• The SEATO treaty is signed in Manila, Philippines.
• Died:Edward C. Kalbfus, American admiral (b. 1877)

September 7, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Died:
  • Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
  • Glenn Scobey Warner, American college football coach (b. 1871)

September 8, 1954 (Wednesday)

• The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand.

September 9, 1954 (Thursday)

• An earthquake centered on the city of Orléansville, Algeria kills 1,500 and leaves thousands homeless.

September 10, 1954 (Friday)

• A mysterious man from the Philippines found a black book and learned that it was from a school somewhere in Europe. He went to the school and asked a student to write the actual date on the front page of it, because he did not know the date. The student wrote the date "10/09/54" in blue ink. The black book was very significant, but its content is still a mystery.

September 11, 1954 (Saturday)

• The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.

September 14, 1954 (Tuesday)

• The Soviet Union test fires a thermonuclear bomb for the first time.
• English composer Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera version of The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy.

September 15, 1954 (Wednesday)

• Black Wednesday in air travel: severe delays to flights due to bad weather along the East Coast of the United States.

September 17, 1954 (Friday)

• William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies is published in London.

September 18, 1954 (Saturday)

• Born:Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)

September 21, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Died:Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. 1858)

September 24, 1954 (Friday)

• Born:Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (d. 1983)
• Died:Edward Pilgrim, British homeowner (suicide) (b. 1904)

September 25, 1954 (Saturday)

• Footscray Football Club win their first and only Australian Football League Grand Final.

September 26, 1954 (Sunday)

• The Japanese ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are killed. Seven other ships are wrecked and at least nine others seriously damaged.

September 28, 1954 (Tuesday)

• Died:Bert Lytell, American actor (b. 1885)

September 30, 1954 (Thursday)

• The USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the U.S. Navy.

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